Word: final
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Zimmerman reached the final by defeating teammate Shyjan in a fiercely contested three-setter Saturday. With Shyjan up a set and serving for the set, at 5-4 he was two points away from the match at 30-30. Zimmerman, however, demonstrated just what it is that makes him such a tough player--his incredible mental strength--fighting back to take the match...
Mueller defeated Brown in three sets as well to reach the final. The Cornhusker was also pushed to the limit by Harvard sophomore Albert Chang in an earlier round...
...final, Harvard sophomore John Tolmie came from a *** field in three hard-fought sets...
...toting dark green duffel bags were filing off ships in Valdez, Alaska, last week and heading toward the phones, Mike's Pizza Palace or the bar at the Pipeline Club. Final paychecks were burning holes in thousands of pockets. The work force that spearheaded Exxon's $1 billion effort to erase the largest oil spill in U.S. history was calling it quits before the winter-storm season descends on Prince William Sound. Six months after the Exxon Valdez ran hard aground on Bligh Reef and dumped 260,000 bbl. of crude oil into one of the most scenic bodies...
Nujoma, who has waged a protracted armed struggle against South African rule, returned to Namibia in time to register as a voter in the November elections for a constituent assembly, which will prepare the territory for final independence next year. But SWAPO's election director, Hage Geingob, is among those who fear that Namibia's history of political bloodshed may not yet be over. If any harm came to Nujoma, he said, "the consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate...