Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tournament was the first of the season for the relatively young team, which faces an uphill climb in trying to repeat last year's success. The 1998-99 team went 22-5 (7-0 Ivy), finished No. 19 in the nation and was led by James Blake, the nation's No. 1 player. Blake left Harvard after last season to turn...
...approving the legislation that had been sponsored by the military. Three people were killed and scores injured in two days of protest against the bill that began Thursday, and a military spokesman said Friday the law had been withdrawn because "half the people do not understand its contents." The climb-down is a second humiliation for the Indonesian military only five days after it was forced to accept foreign peacekeepers' taking control of its old stamping grounds in East Timor...
Alpert says these visitors are standard American cockroaches. They gain access to dorm rooms, he said, in the summer months when shower pipes are dry and the roach can climb up through the drain...
...well-constructed buildings should, many apartments, built in a slapdash rush to accommodate waves of urban migration, collapsed, squashing residents as they slept at 3:02 a.m. At the end of last week, more than 13,000 bodies had been found. The U.N. expected the final toll to climb toward 40,000, based on the number of pancaked dwellings, making this one of the worst natural disasters to touch Europe in this century...
...upswing. So is the game, and that's good news for racquet makers such as Wilson, Prince and Head, the company that makes Agassi's. With golf muscling in on the leisure market, racquet sales have been in a decade-long decline. This year sales could climb 5%, which is in some measure attributable to the ability of a Swedish turnaround artist to persuade the Austrian government's tobacco monopoly to sell him a sporting-goods company created by an American entrepreneur...