Word: brims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That was at home, however. On the road, Harvard has to worry about Gutterson Field House and the fans that fill it to the brim for every game...
Cornell has only one thing going for it: its fans, renowned throughout the ECAC. When Lynah Rink is filled to the brim with loud, screaming, obnoxious fans who have no qualms over throwing sharp objects at the opposing goalie, its not a pretty sight for visiting teams...
...groundwork for points the candidates can expound on later in the debates. Statistics (however dubious) are everywhere. Fittingly, Ross Perot's first half-hour ad, which aired twice last week, was a no-nonsense lecture on the sorry state of the U.S. economy, filled to the brim with charts and graphs -- not the kind of fare prime-time viewers would be expected to sit through. Yet it drew an impressive 12.2 rating (representing 11.36 million homes) and had a bigger audience than the National League playoff game that followed. Perot's lecture was an effective delineation of the problem...
...ambitious TripleCast always posed a tricky problem for NBC. To promote it, the network implicitly had to denigrate its own broadcast coverage -- stressing that the pay-TV event would be live and commercial free in contrast to the broadcast programming, which is mostly taped and filled to the brim with ads. Indeed, TripleCast viewers -- however few -- have found NBC's evening coverage disingenuous, not to say superfluous: Costas and crew have had to manufacture suspense around events already completed and aired earlier in the day. What's more, the TripleCast's no-nonsense approach (events shown in full; no distracting...
...mass-producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated from birth to slaughter brim with righteous indignation. (A reformed carnivore, Rifkin says he swore off beef 15 years ago after taking three bites of a revolting blue-gray hamburger, then throwing the rest away...