Word: flukes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...impossible happened during last night's match-up between Team U.S.A. and favored Colombia: for the first time since 1950 the Americans won a World Cup match. Their 2-1 victory was no fluke, since the Yanks dominated the field during the game, with the Colombian goal coming only in the last few minutes of play. The Americans win virtually ensures the team a berth in the second round, while the Colombians have no chance of advancing after suffering two losses. This afternoon, Italy topped Norway...
Representatives from Tufts and the AAMC said this week that the blackout was a fluke, and should not preclude Tufts from serving as one of this year's nine MCAT sites in Massachusetts (most of them in the Boston area). This sounds perfectly reasonable, but the fact remains that there is no pressing need to administer the test at Tufts when there are eight other MCAT testing sites around the Boston area...
...services at Harvard. Reporters Andrew Wright and Doug Pravda managed to cover a broad range of issues, many of them technical, without loss of accuracy, and for that, they should be specially commended. Hopefully, the careful attention paid to accuracy on this series is a trend and not a fluke...
While Burner called this weekend's failure "a fluke situation, but not very unusual," he attributed the freezes somewhat to a sudden increase in network users over the last few weeks. And he acknowledged that the current network is in need of a reevaluation...
Harvard has had trouble playing solid games against weak opponents in the last few weeks. The Beanpot loss to Boston College may have been a fluke since Harvard was playing its third game in four nights, but Harvard needed a third-period comeback last Friday against a Dartmouth a squad that had won only three games all season...