Word: contest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...block legislation, but the vote was good enough to encourage communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov to run for President again next June. This is exactly what the Kremlin wants. Kremlin controllers know that Zyuganov, wooden and thin-skinned, is a weak campaigner, and they will be able to pitch the contest as a race between the old and the new. The big loser in the election, however, is Primakov. Few now remember his announcement on the eve of the election that he would run for President. Primakov's bloc will end up with a respectable number of Duma seats...
Northeastern never did regain the lead in the contest, but when Huskies' wingers Brian Cummings and Billy Newson notched two late third-period goals within 17 seconds of each other, the demeanor of the game changed...
Harvard did not fare as well as it hoped heading in to last Friday's contest. After blasting Dartmouth 7-2 earlier this season, the Crimson skated to a mediocre 1-1 tie against the Big Green, breaking a streak of seven series wins since...
With freshman winger Brett Nowak, who had four points in Harvard's last contest with Dartmouth, playing with the United States Junior National Team in Sweden, many of the other younger players had to step up to fill the slot...
...turning point of the contest came 15:21 minutes into the second half when Husky sophomore guard Jean Bain connected with freshman forward Toby Brittian on an alley...