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Word: closeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLee-ve It! | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Fraternity to Appear Before Licensing Board | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Harrel E. Conner jr., CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tackling Football Myths | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Sends Wake-up Call on Abortion | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Sends Wake-up Call on Abortion | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

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