Word: contest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...More importantly for the Crimson, the pair turned in yeoman's duty as Stone shortened her bench to two lines in the tight contest...
...climactic match of the day was the No. 1 contest between Crimson ace Blake and his old junior tennis rival, Brian Vahally. Blake, a returning All-American and the current No. 1-ranked collegiate singles player, was the favorite...
Hall was one of several witnesses to testify last week before the Senate's subcommittee on investigations, chaired by the G.O.P.'s Susan Collins of Maine, who wants to regulate sweepstakes and fine companies engaged in trickery. Sweepstakes organizers, who use the contests to hawk magazines, books and videos, would be required to display prominently on their mailings the odds of winning. And they would be barred from telling contestants they are winners when they are not. Facing a room full of industry lobbyists--they could be winners!--Collins charged that contest organizers are "exploiting people's dreams through these...
...their gullibility. The companies, which include American Family Enterprises (partly owned by Time Inc., publisher of TIME), Publishers Clearing House and the Reader's Digest Association, might prefer to avoid regulation. They testified that contest rules and odds are being made clearer and that the names of people who spend exorbitant amounts of money on subscriptions in the hope of improving their odds were being dropped from their lists. That might avoid the complications created by one elderly contestant who signed up for magazines stretching until 2086. The subscriber then died, presumably wiser but poorer. His estate is trying...
After that friendly rivalry, the next major contest will be UMass next Friday night. UMass has been ranked high consistently in national polls, and although having fallen in recent weeks, UMass remains a formidable challenge for the Crimson. A victory next Friday night would put Harvard near the top of collegiate East Coast water polo...