Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economy delivered an outpouring of good cheer as the Christmas shopping season got into full swing. The economy created a whopping 350,000 new jobs in November, far exceeding the forecast of economists and dropping the unemployment rate .2%, to a four-year low of 5.6%. The new jobs helped boost the Conference Board's index of consumer confidence in November to its highest level in four years; the personal income of Americans grew a healthy 1.4%. Measures of consumer spending and manufacturing strength also surged. About the only dissonant note was the likelihood that all the good news will...
Granted, the attendance figure--2206,600 short of capacity (although it looked and felt worse than that)--wasn't something to cheer about. Harvard has had several clunker crowds this year, making it difficult to fully take advantage...although then again, maybe the legions of the missing are merely catching on quickly...
Summing up the team's performance, freshman Mary Naber said, "From the first cheer to the last race, Harvard set the pace for the meet...
...those nights where the biggest cheer went to Zamboni driver and rink manager Jack Kirrane, who came out to repair the goal in front of the student section in the second period with B.U. leading by three...
Lauding Yale has become a fad here, the mark of the ultimate Harvard smugness. It says, "I so tire of Harvard, that I'd rather go to Yale." Forget that Fitzgerald also wrote that "Harvard men were 'Bostonians with affected accents.'" Cheer for Yale at the Game today...