Word: eight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard continued to press, but found its advances frustrated by an Eagle defense loaded with up to eight defenders trying to preserve the lead...
Despite the disappointing finish, Harvard recorded just the third 7-0 Ivy League record since 1991, when all eight schools began to sponsor women's soccer programs. Additionally, the Crimson posted one of the best overall records in school history, ascending to the No. 7 spot in the national rankings...
...created may very well have helped junior Ali Shipley as well. With two diving wins of her own, Shipley's performances evidenced the strength of the diving corps. Her aerial magic and clean entries gave her decisive victories on both the one-meter and three-meter events, winning by eight points and 28 points, respectively...
...yearning for a less complicated President. In Texas, Bush is known as a skilled manager and a confident, crisp decision maker. He has pursued, for the most part, simple, understandable policy goals and has stuck to his agenda with remarkable discipline. But on the national stage these past eight months, a competing image of Bush has appeared--that of a cautious, staff-dependent candidate, likable but lacking gravitas, who sounds out of his depth on some of the most serious policy issues a President must consider. Last week reporters pounced on the fact that he failed an interviewer...
Abdi, 43, has had the most difficult time. In 1993, he spent eight months in solitary confinement for criticizing the clerics' failure to abide by democratic practices set down by the nation's 1979 constitution. Yet he has remained a leading strategist in Khatami's new Participation Party and is one of the architects of Iranian detente with the West. In 1998, ignoring the howls of the hard-liners, Abdi traveled to Paris and met with former hostage Barry Rosen, achieving a reconciliation of sorts. A sign of Abdi's influence: last summer's student riots began with a protest...