Word: crunch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that all those moral issues have been settled, we can delve further into the topic at hand: Why did all of Yale's teams wilt like the California Angels when crunch time came? Here are several possibilities...
Following in the tradition of Joe Hill, the Clash and others, Morello and Rage Against the Machine marry their music to radical politics. The band's sound is terrifically assaultive: on its most recent album, Evil Empire, the songs have the crunch and grind of metal with a bit of the energetic bounce of hip-hop. The band's lyrics also pack a punch: the new single, People of the Sun, is an attack on American foreign policy toward the anti-government Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico (Morello charges that the U.S. is supporting an oppressive Mexican government when...
...says. "He's fighting to hold the knee down and the foot up. Then he'll bring it back to the middle and fight to bring my knee up to my chest. My whole leg is fighting, the foot flapping. But he holds on. You can hear the joints crunch...
...support and describing the agency's projects in glowing terms. As the conference drew to a close, Goldin proposed that the President and Congress appropriate more funds to resolve the scientific issues. The announcement and conference may have been the marriage of an intriguing scientific conundrum and a budget crunch. "Obviously NASA is a beleaguered agency," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger. "In the ten years since the Challenger disaster, there has been increasing public awareness of how lean the government financial larder is, and that makes NASA look like a luxury operation. Anything that vindicates space exploration looks good...
...time," Lenzi said, "but the final are great." In other events Monday, sixth-seed Jana Novotna bumped top-seeded Monica Seles from the Olympic tennis tournament, rallying from a 5-3 third-set deficit to win 7-5, 3-6, 8-6. "She played better than I did at crunch time," Seles said. The other U.S. women won, which means a semifinal showdown Wednesday between Mary Joe Fernandez and Lindsay Davenport, who are close friends as well as teammates. At least one of them will take home a medal. Novotna's opponent in the semifinals will be No. 3 Arantxa...