Word: duel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deserves the credit -- and a likely Nobel Prize -- for being the first to track down the AIDS virus? For more than seven years, that question has generated a transatlantic duel, during which accusations of mistakes became tainted with bitter murmurs about dishonesty, between rival scientists in France and the U.S. Now the mystery may have been solved. New evidence to be published later this month in the journal Science offers a simple explanation of how two laboratories came to claim credit for the same discovery...
...first game against Brown turned into a pitching duel between the Crimson's Chris Carr and the Bear's Christy Trexler. Carr was the first to succumb in the heated battle, when she surrendered two hits in the fifth inning to Brown's Michelle Pagliaro and Shannon Blumer, which eventually led to the Bear's only two runs of the game...
What started out as a pitchers' duel became a home run battle, as the Harvard men's baseball team defeated the Holy Cross Crusaders, 4-2, yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...Guard fared no better than other Iraqi units. Not only was allied air power unchallenged and decisive; U.S. M1A1 tanks proved superior in maneuverability and firepower to Iraq's best, the Soviet-built T-72s. One correspondent witnessed a duel between an M1A1 and a T-72. When they sighted each other, the American tank backed up, outside the T-72's range. The Iraqi tank fired a round that fell short. The M1A1 fired its longer-range cannon, scoring a direct hit that put the Iraqi tank out of action, then promptly swiveled and went looking for another victim...
...Marine was killed and five others were wounded yesterday in an artillery duel across the border, the U.S. command reported. Twenty Americans have been killed in action in Operation Desert Storm, 30 are listed as missing and nine as prisoners...