Word: biter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave a sneak preview of his own health care plan, which reads a lot like President Clinton's. Expect a nail-biter tomorrow when the Senate Finance Committee votes on Moynihan's strategy. He'll push voluntary measures to have employers pay for medical insurance, but effectively make them pay ONLY after 5 years if too few Americans are covered. Key Republicans on the committee predict they'll successfully defeat the thing Wednesday, prompting TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson to speculate that Moynihan (with White House coaxing) has set up the GOP members to be the spoilers...
Harvard beat Princeton in the first round of the tourney, 7-4, and then demolished UMass-Amherst, 12-5. But, catapulted into the round of four, the Crimson was stung by eventual champion Slippery Rock, 23-3, set back by Maryland in a nail-biter 5-4, and then fell to Bucknell in the finale...
DIED. MACDONALD CAREY, 81, actor; in Beverly Hills, California. The casually masculine Carey was a dependable lead in Golden Age Hollywood, where he appeared in more than 50 films, including Alfred Hitchcock's small-town nail biter Shadow of a Doubt (1943), which featured Carey as a G-man on the trail of amiable psychopath Joseph Cotten. Carey is perhaps most beloved by viewers of daytime television, where for three decades he played the perpetually understanding Dr. Tom Horton on nbc's Days of Our Lives -- and provided the show's trademark voice-over: "Like sands through the hourglass...
William and Mary is coming off of a solid 9-2 season in which its only losses were to Division I power Virginia (33-6) and solid James Madison (21-14) in a nail-biter...
Everyone loves those last minute, down-to-the-wire, nail-biter matches in team tennis...