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Word: caps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee's key recommendations was to effectively cap the spending from the state's stabilization fund, which was termed as a "slush fund" by Barbara Anderson, founder and executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation & Government. While other states have similar "rainy-day funds," there are no limits to what Massachusetts can spend from the stabilization fund...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Massachusetts Politicians Sworn In | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...both the A's and the Cardinals, says McGwire has a unique ability to "control his emotions, to stifle them." His best friend on the team, catcher Tom Lampkin, says McGwire "has such control on the mental side. He doesn't let things stew inside him. He puts a cap on it." So as McGwire shattered the most famous record in sports with 70 homers in a season, he didn't embrace the conflict; he transcended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark McGwire: Mark of Excellence | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

Charles River is a "high-risk" mutual fund with 27 undergraduate members who pool their money to invest primarily in foreign and domestic low-cap equities--smaller, startup companies, as opposed to established blue chip giants like General Electric...

Author: By David A. Whelan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Funds | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...rejuvenated Harvard squad came out of thelocker room after the intermission. The Crimsonrecorded its first goal 3:32 into the secondperiod when Mleczko found Botterill in the leftcorner. The former Olympian rifled the disc to herCanadian National Team counterpart, Shewchuk, whoscored from point-blank range to cap off thewell-executed play...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hockey Upsets No. 1 UNH | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...could write a political history of African Americans based on changes in hairstyles, ranging from kinky and short to kinky and long, from greased and "pressed" (with a stocking cap) to straightened, waved or jerry-curled. But it was Madam C.J. Walker, as the historian Rayford W. Logan maintains, who "made straight hair 'good hair,'" and in doing so, made a fortune for herself and a decent standard of living for a work force of "agents" that numbered 20,000 in the U.S. and the Caribbean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madam C.J. Walker: Her Crusade | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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