Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exceptional passing game to its advantage by using a greater width of the field than it had in the first and placing its forwards better by putting them higher up on the field. The team also put more pressure on the Penn defense by stepping up closer on Penn's 16-yard hits...
...such mini-flops could be attributed to the decidedly unattractive set. There was no chance for stage-rushing, since the Boston P.D. fences kept Shindell far from the calm crowd. Shindell creates passion in more intimate venues, where the audience can see the sweat on his brow and get closer to his wink and smile...
...guess here is that it's Parcells, if only because his heart can't take much more of this. The final indignity -- being parodied in the effete sports page of the New York Times, for gosh sakes, drives the Tuna over the edge -- and the Jets to keep it closer than the 5 1/2 points the BRONCOS are spotting them...
Since Jeremy Knowles became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1991, the couple has become even closer to the college family. Both speak fondly of the constant stream of new faces--students, faculty, and alumni--who they say make their official dinners a pleasure to host...
...George W. Bush is trying to keep his enemies closer, he's got a funny way of showing it. Even while extending another GOP olive branch to Pat Buchanan (well, mostly to his supporters), Bush hinted Wednesday night that the nascent Perot-Buchanan Reform party alliance was an attempt to do to Bush what they did to his father: Bring him down. "I've always thought the 1992 campaign was hard for my dad to get traction in the race because of, first, Patrick J. Buchanan, and then Ross Perot inflicted a series of cuts," the younger Bush said...