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Word: closers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Siegel, the move to New Jersey's flagship public university was motivated by a realization that tenure is virtually impossible to receive at Harvard as well as a desire to be closer to his wife, who works in New York City...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: English Dept. To Lose Three Junior Faculty | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

...contest became embarrassing for Columbia in the second half as the Lions could get no closer than eight, and that was with 14:59 remaining in the game. During one stretch, the Crimson scored 12 consecutive points, including Barnard's two treys, and led by as many...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hoopsters Slip Again; Title Almost Gone | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

...wrestled well but a few matches were closer than they should have been," Picarsic said. "We had to stay focused coming back from a hard loss...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Wins Pair, Slips vs. No. 17 Cornell | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

...awfully hard to tell the Thais they had something to worry about when they were growing at 8% a year. They're a lot more attentive now." Greenspan and Rubin hope they can turn that attention into the kind of reforms that will make these emerging markets closer to ideal. Among the top priorities: cleaner international banking systems, transparent lending practices and more open markets. As soon as they can ram those changes through, they expect growth to pick up again--possibly just in time to help a flagging U.S. economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Three Marketeers | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...Service." The Clinton Administration, determined that the service turn over a new leaf, appointed Dombeck in 1997. Now he is the point man for a set of contentious land-management issues that will only get hotter as the 2000 presidential election--and the environmentalist candidacy of Al Gore--gets closer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ruckus In the Woods | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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