Word: finish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balanced." The lesson -- live within your means -- is not particularly sexy politically. But Clinton feels that Americans asked him to clean up the deficits of the Reagan and Bush years, tax-cut-fueled deficits which Monday he called "the failed policies of the past." Now he's offering to finish...
Starting on the offensive line for his third straight year, Birk helped the Crimson finish 9-1 overall and a perfect 7-0 in the Ivy League. Harvard was one of only four Division I-AA schools to average more than 200 yards per game rushing and passing. The Crimson offense set 16 individual and team records...
...Diesel sews up the category by stitching outrageous, self-referential irony into the imagery of a spaghetti western. A filthy, overweight gunslinger swipes candy from a little girl, spits on a saloon floor and kicks a dog before shooting dead the Diesel-clad hero. Yes, nice guys do finish last...
...season Coach Mike Holmgren, with his Poppin Fresh face and Dad-knows-best style, led his team easily into the playoffs. The Pack seems set to face the 49ers for the NFC crown, with the winner inflicting the ritual Super Bowl humiliation on the AFC champ. Can nice guys finish first again...
Senate majority leader Trent Lott, still stung by the pelting he got from his own party for helping President Clinton pass a chemical-weapons treaty earlier this year, didn't bother to wait for negotiators in Japan to finish their work last week before declaring the deal dead. "If they come back and think we're going to go along with what they're doing in Kyoto, they've got another think coming," Lott said. That was by no means a strictly partisan assessment. Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, who backs the deal, publicly urged the Administration to hold off submitting...