Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With just over a minute to play in the second, Big Green center Jamie Herrington gained control of the puck from a turnover, and tried to move in for the kill. Senior defenseman Mark Moore aggressively backchecked and broke up the play to keep Dartmouth scoreless in the second stanza...
...second half, however, Tinsley took control of the game. She showed great ability to penetrate the Harvard zone and hit difficult shots. She was often able to come out of nowhere and snatch rebounds away from the taller Harvard players. She scored seven points on an 11-0 Northeastern run six minutes into the second half that effectively guaranteed a Husky victory...
Because of the turnovers, the Crimson couldn't control the tempo of the game...
...Communist Party boss in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin. Luzhkov rose steadily under Yeltsin's benevolent shadow, and in 1992 was appointed mayor of Moscow. When the communist system collapsed, the city unceremoniously took over as much of the party's resources as it could. A corporation that is closely controlled by the mayor, Sistema ("the system"), now controls much of the capital's prime real estate, factories and construction firms, plus a media empire that includes a couple of TV stations. Luzhkov has described his blueprint for Russia's future as a mix of capitalism and state control. His models: England...
...Gusev's habits had changed. He parked and reparked a Russian-embassy car with diplomatic plates, apparently looking for an optimum position for an antenna concealed, as it turned out, in a Kleenex box on his dashboard. Once satisfied, he got out and appeared to be working a remote-control device hidden in his suit. All this led the FBI to conclude--correctly, as events proved--that he had planted some sort of short-range low-frequency device and was settling down to monitor...