Word: bench
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bench was cleared with a whopping five minutes to play...
Harvard's insurmountable lead meant that Hogan was able to let everyone on the bench have a chance to nget into the game. Junior Bill Madden and sophomores Bryan Brissette and Joe Weidenbach each collected a base hit in relief, while sophomore Dom Giomarco and freshmen Kevin Correa and Scott Parrot saw their first action of the season. Bullpen catcher sophomore Steve Sadoski caught the final inning...
Gilbert will not be the only one affected by the loss. A total of 15 scientists work in the genome laboratory, including four computer lab technicians, eight bench technicians and three professional scientists. Because the lab is closing, many of them have been forced to find new employment...
This is not to say that Anita Hill was not sexually harassed, nor is it to say that the hearings were not entertaining. But none of these accusations, rebuttals and simply irrelevant statements could cloak the fact that Thomas was not the most qualified person for the highest bench in the land. Nor could they mask the truth: Thomas was both nominated and attacked out of purely political motives. If we are ever to have another Justice chosen for legal scholarship and not political palatability, this partisan poisoning of the process must stop...
...departure will have a major impact. For the first time in a quarter- century, Democrats will have a chance to put their man or woman on the court and brake the bench's conservative drift. White, 75, one of the original two dissenters in Roe v. Wade and a consistent foe of the constitutional right to abortion, opposed broad use of affirmative action, favored greater accommodation between church and state and regularly sided with police on law- and-order issues. President Clinton promptly promised to find a top notch replacement with "good judgment" and "a big heart...