Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About to close in on the team's top priority-an Ivy League title it could call its own-the Crimson was not able to duplicate its first half dominance. The Big Green, however, which suffered only its second loss in league play this year, could get no closer...
...group of more than 20 congressmen hopes to place a moratorium on the approval of any more animal patents until the ethics of the situation can come under closer scrutiny. The legislation would also revoke the Harvard patent until a decision were reached...
...women's team also fell to Yale, but it was a closer meet. The Crimson women swept the intermediate hurdles. Sophomore Meredith Rainey won the 200m, 400m, 400m and mile relays. In the 400m, Rainey took on the worst conditions of the meet and beat the competition by several strides...
...spirit, all these blockbusters -- among the top grossers in movie history -- were closer to the cartoon classics than the late-'70s Disney product was. Without its founder, the studio floundered, producing modest cartoons, lame sequels and sci-fi thrillers without art or heart. However conscientiously Ron Miller ran the shop, he was no match for Lucas and Spielberg. As if by osmosis, these young outsiders had learned the master's lessons of film artistry and audience manipulation. Miller was Disney's son-in-law, but Lucas and Spielberg were Walt's true heirs...
...always received official support. He has been suspended twice without pay after members of the Pentagon's community of Christian Fundamentalists complained that his group was not sufficiently "Christ centered." Winchester, a devout Roman Catholic, sat down with his adversaries. He convinced them that the group would bring people closer to God and agreed to remain under the chaplain's chain of command. Since then, he has begun offering monthly stress-reduction workshops and has conducted a special meditation program for employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency...