Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both teams led the Ivy League in statistical categories. Princeton scored the most goals, with Harvard only three goals behind. Harvard held Ivy teams to the least goals, with Princeton only nine goals ahead...
Start with his 12.0 points per game, third on the squad behind sophomore Ralph James and senior Mike Gielen, and add in his teamleading 6.6 rebounds per game and you've got some interest. Throw in the fact that he started every game at power forward as a freshman, and you've got yourself a strong candidate...
...intention to "sit tight and await Soviet concessions," he went on to outline an approach that sounded exactly like that: "Our policy must be . . . to test the application of Soviet 'new thinking' again and again" with a view to determining "whether the new thinking is real once we probe behind the slogans...
...groundwater rises, it dissolves mineral salts from the soil and bedrock. Ancient buildings, many made of porous limestone, act like sponges, sucking this salty water from the ground. When the water evaporates, the salts are left behind; when this happens at the stone's surface, these crystallize into destructive white lesions...
...preservation drive. That is why Mubarak's visit to Luxor, the first since he took office in 1981, was so significant. He not only called for a restoration of the Luxor Temple but also a halt to urban encroachments on all archaeological sites. If Mubarak does throw his power behind preservation, he may encourage the Egyptians to take charge of their own priceless heritage and other nations to lend a hand as well. After all, if the monuments of the Pharaonic civilization are allowed to crumble, the whole world will share the loss...