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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blew them out of the water off the start," Buriak said. "We were expecting them to smoke us off the start because their boat has been together longer, but they didn...

Author: By Jose A. Guerra, | Title: Oarswomen Overcome Pesky Northeastern | 3/4/1990 | See Source »

...Charles Ponzi promised a return of 50% in less than two months. The plot was ingeniously simple: he paid the early customers (and himself) with money from the later ones. When the whistle blew he was $3 million in arrears. Ponzi served a three-year sentence. Paroled, he advertised a new scheme, 200% in 60 days. He was rearrested and eventually deported to his native Italy. Only two things were left behind: the usual dupes and the name Ponzi schemes, still used to describe illegal methods of fleecing the sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Pigs Always Get Slaughtered | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Last night at Yale, the Harvard women's ice hockey team blew out Yale by a score of 7-1. The Elis only got nine shots on goal, while Harvard ripped...

Author: By Jacqueline Blocker, | Title: Joslin, Icewomen Obliterate Yale, 7-1 | 2/15/1990 | See Source »

...night/ What so loudly we sang as the daylight's last cleaning." An immigrant Hungarian opera singer performing at a benefit showed Yankee ingenuity when he drew on the cliches of his adopted land, belting out, "Bombs bursting in air, George Washington was there." A former Miss Bloomington, Minn., blew her chance to break into the big time when she sang the anthem before a Minnesota Twins game. By the time she got to the "land of the free," she was in the land of the hopelessly confused. "Aw, nuts," she muttered into the microphone, and gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh Say, Can You Sing It? | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...fact remains: Harvard blew Princetonaway, much to the yelping delight of thenear-capacity crowd at Blodgett...

Author: By Juan Plascencia, | Title: Upset City in the Water at Blodgett | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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