Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Williams ran the weak side of the field and passed to rookie Ellen McBreen who ran in for the go-ahead score. Princeton didn't have a chance to comeback as the clock counted down to end the game...
...vigor into the Crimson line-up. The Columbus Day weekend featured games against some of the best teams in the nation, including top-rated Berkeley. And the first half displayed some of the things Harvard learned: the fast-break scoring, the success Harvard had in stealing balls, the quick comeback...
...dawn on her that perhaps all roads led to Atlantic City. When Gaddafi-linked terrorists threatened to attack the U.S., what city were they rumored to have chosen? When casino owner Donald Trump insulted hotel queen Leona Helmsley, what were they fighting over? When Cher made a concert tour comeback after eight years, where did she open? The answer every time: Atlantic City. So Painton set out to discover the lure. "The only thing I knew about Atlantic City was that Louis Malle had made a movie about it," she says. Painton, an American, grew up in Paris and attended...
...full pursuit of the good life themselves, few West Europeans would second that harsh assessment. The centerpiece of the Community's comeback is the E.C. plan to put in place something that Americans take for granted: a single marketplace in which goods, services and workers can circulate freely, and where competition can reward efficient enterprise. In 1957 the E.C.'s founding treaty promised just such a common market, but although member states dismantled intra-Community tariff barriers, they retained a bewildering barrage of regulations to restrict trade and curb competition. Although Western Europe has no immediate plans to create...
...recent visit by the leader of Burkina Faso to Beijing has fueled new rumors that the 85-year-old Chinese leader is seriously ill. In the vacuum created by such uncertainty, conservative hard-liners who had been sidelined during a decade of economic reforms continued to stage a comeback. Among the most notorious: Maoist ideologue He Jingzhi, 65, who was named Minister of Culture last week in the first top-level Cabinet reshuffling since the purge of "bourgeois liberals" from the party began last June. As deputy head of party propaganda, He played a key role in a 1987 conference...