Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, no one denies that Saturday's loss was a disheartening one. A lively student section, a spirited band and the usual flock of tailgating alumni entered the Stadium full of hope for the new year, only to exit crestfallen after Columbia's last minute touchdown. An afternoon that began warm and sunny ended chilly and overcast...
...agreement with Barnes and Noble, a nation-wide book retailer, is for 15 years, according to Coop Director Larry Cheng '96. But Murphy said the Coop can exit the agreement at any time it is unhappy...
Back with her parents now in Powdersville, South Carolina, Faulkner says she won't return to the Citadel and has no regrets about her quick exit: "I'd rather walk out than be carried out." There were times when she thought it might come to that. Early Saturday morning, Faulkner and her parents had driven to the Citadel from a Charleston hotel nearby. Because of death threats, she was escorted by federal marshals who checked out the campus and its approaches before the Faulkners entered by way of the school's back gate...
Being swallowed up by a bog is not a very presidential exit, so it's just as well that a Mountie and a Secret Service man accompanied George Bush when he took an unplanned constitutional during a fishing trip in Newfoundland. "Bogholes in Newfoundland can look like hard ground," says Corporal Les Noble, the Mountie. "All of a sudden the President went into a boghole, and he was in above his waist." Noble, who had one foot in the quicksand-like bog himself, managed after a 10-minute struggle to extricate Bush with the help of Secret Service...
...Pentagon has no enthusiasm for the pullout, and officials hope the desperate consequences it would have for civilians will inhibit politicians from ever ordering the exit. "The plan is limited to the withdrawal of unprofor forces," says General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It does not provide for humanitarian or refugee support either during or after the withdrawal operation...