Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...starters, amidst all of the initial frenzy of O.J. news, the Knicks and Rockets managed to finish their best-of-seven series, and Hakeem Olawjowon led the Western Conference Champions to a 4-3 victory and the 1994 NBA crown...
...Crimson's first singles player last year, junior Gina Majmudar, advanced to yesterday's first-flight singles final. There, however, Wisconsin's Melissa Zimpfer overpowered Majmudar for the 6-0, 6-2 victory and single's crown...
Effectively cutting loose the poor was just part of an effort by the Democrats to remake themselves in the face of a Republican juggernaut that is now racing through Medicare. As they prepare for a bitter battle over that crown jewel of the Great Society, Democrats are determined to refashion themselves as defenders of the middle class against the G.O.P. raiders. It was the foul mood of the middle class that made welfare a losing issue for Democrats. And for the same reason, with pocketbook issues dominating the final weeks of the congressional budget fight, the latest items...
...mining in the area, which could impede the project's start-up. Among the danger signs: contamination of two nearby creeks with poisons, including arsenic, from previous gold mines. The critics want UNESCO to add Yellowstone to its list of endangered sites and thereby increase pressure on Crown Butte Mines, Inc., to drop plans for the new mine. "A worse site could not have been imagined," says Sue Glidden, co-owner of the general store in nearby Cooke City. "It threatens all our community values. It is not our destiny to return to our mining roots...
However, the real difference between Harvard's taking the crown and suffering the pain it did was not its 3-3 draw with Brown, but rather the squad's 2-2 season-opening tie against lowly Columbia, a team that had never beaten or tied the Crimson to that point...