Word: establish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, we used to laugh up in the press boxas we watched teams try to "establish the run"against Harvard. Dartmouth deserves credit fortrying, but a 1.4 yards-per-carry average will geta pat on the back only from...
...remain. Burks' wife Charlotte is now running as a Democratic write-in candidate, and some key members of the embarrassed G.O.P. are supporting her. Tommy Burks' only remaining legacy on the ballot is a referendum question he sponsored: a proposed amendment to the state's constitution that would establish a crime victim's bill of rights...
...hour job on the night shift hauling frozen food out of a Croker Global warehouse to waiting delivery trucks. Conrad is someone new in a Wolfe novel, a totally good person who wants nothing more out of life than to buy a modest condominium for his family and establish a well-ordered, bourgeois existence. After the most riveting fictional scene ever set in a 0[degree]F freezer unit--here the competition is nonexistent--Conrad learns that he has been laid off, a catastrophe that drives him innocently and mistakenly but also inexorably into the vividly described hellhole...
While a Divx deck can run DVDs, it also plays its own disks. Divx decks plug into the TV, just like DVD drives. But they plug into the phone line too. When you first set up your deck, you must establish an account with Divx central--your machine calls a toll-free number, and you key in credit-card information. (The player automatically calls headquarters once or twice a month in the middle of the night, which I find creepy.) You see, rather than simply renting Divx disks, you buy them outright, for $4.50, and never return them...
Dartmouth will most likely try to establish the run early in the game and build off last week's success. It had been rotating two tailbacks--senior Eric Davis and junior Reggie Belhomme--with little success, averaging two yards per rush. Davis distinguished himself last week, averaging an even five yards per carry...