Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Players also charge that even without injuries, the pounding their bodies take on turf shortens their careers. Recently, baseball player Barry Larkin of the Cincinnati Reds demanded a trade to a grass-field team to try to extend his career. According to Gaines, many free agents have refused to sign with teams whose home field is carpeted. The Green Bay Packers requested that a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints be played on grass, so the Superdome was covered with a temporary grass pitch...
There are colorful stories about starving undergraduates queuing up in lines that extend from the swiping station in the dining hall to the Quincy House gates on Plympton Street. Musicians lugged their cellos to practice rooms hoping to prepare for auditions, only to find ridiculous and limiting hours of service. Quad residents trekked through wind and rain, thanks to Hurricane Floyd, because of the disengaged Harvard shuttle service. Athletes faced a particularly difficult task--practicing across the river, eating in Dunster and living in the Quad, all without shuttle service. Students who took advantage of temporary housing before Sept...
Meagher made two more crucial saves in the last ten minutes to extend the game into overtime. The Terriers had been on the offensive for the last 20 minutes of the second half, but the overtime break afforded the Crimson an opportunity to reorganize for the two 15-minute sudden-death periods...
...magazine staff took a rare step and opposed the University's push to extend its rights over the names of campus organizations and decided simply to register the name "The Lampoon," the application for which is still pending...
...Chinese want to win. They have hopes of a medal in Sydney next year. Though Beijing has permitted a few soccer players to work in Europe, its Sports Ministry keeps them mostly at home, training, Soviet-style, for the next Olympics. China's free market does not yet extend to national treasures like Wang...