Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual, Harvard's defense stood strong, stiffening whenever Princeton got close and holding the Tigers to only 73 rushing yards on 33 attempts, a 2.2 average. It made a couple of costly drive-prolonging penalties in each of Princeton's scoring drives, but Murphy gave the defense the credit...
...board can respond by requiring all members of the fraternity to attend alcohol awareness programs or to submit a plan on managing alcohol on premises. It can also place the fraternity on probation or close it outright...
...Everyone on the team is so close," Eitzmann says. "In that sense, players stick together on such a level that the upperclassmen take on more than just the roles of teammates and friends...
Talk about a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. Thursday's surprisingly close abortion votes in the Senate rattled pro-choice groups and prodded presidential candidates to tip their hands on the issue. Even as the dust was still settling after a day of emotional arguments, senators approved Rick Santorum's (R-Pa.) measure calling for a ban on certain kinds of late-term abortions. The 63-34 margin was only four votes short of the majority needed to override Clinton's promised veto. Before abortion-rights proponents had a chance to process that close call, the Senate raised...
...huge issue for most of the candidates, and this week's Senate debate crystallizes existing, often unheralded, positions. Both Gore and Bradley recently issued statements emphasizing their commitment to the pro-choice cause; Gore referred directly to the Senate's Roe v. Wade vote, noting America is "perilously close" to having an anti-abortion majority in the Senate. Yesterday's vote also provoked an uncharacteristically blunt comment from George W. Bush, who called late-term abortion "inhumane," and urged President Clinton to sign the bill. This is a new tack for Bush, but it's one we'll be seeing...