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Word: generalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general in the past couple of games, we'vepicked up a pattern of coming out slowly, andcoming alive in the third period," Mleczko said."We were determined to overcome that. So we camealive in the first period, but I think ourchallenge right now is to come out and play threereally solid periods of hockey...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hockey Streak at 21 Straight | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...native Austria for Canada with $200 in his pocket and about the same number of English words in his vocabulary. Three years later he managed to start up a tool-and-die shop in a rented garage in downtown Toronto, and in 1960 he signed a contract with General Motors to produce sun-visor brackets for Chevrolets and Pontiacs. Over the following decade, Stronach pulled together a team of mostly German and Austrian tool-and-die workers to make more parts for more cars, and in 1970 he and some partners took over an aerospace-parts company called Magna Electronics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cars | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...repeat of 1998--Who could survive it?--but it could be a throwback to 1997, when Clinton's broken leg matched his busted-up spirit. Dreams of universal health care had been downsized to an extra day in the hospital for major surgery. The state attorneys general, not Clinton, were leading the war on tobacco. His heart wasn't in campaign-finance reform. He was reduced to bite-size governing and musing about his relevance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sighs and Whimpers | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...campus compared to the yawn-inspiring plethora of a capella groups and orchestras. For every 500 chartreuse posters proclaiming another bee-bop doo-wop smile-and-tear fest, there may be at most one piece of paper trumpeting the latest experimentalist musical incarnation or student rock group. In general, Harvard students are content performing and interpreting compositions from oldies pop icons and classical composers, and fellow students are happy to shell out financial support to perpetuate this comfortable culture. But the number of students interested in creating music for collegiate ears amounts to a scarce few, and it is usually...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: SPACE FOR SOUND | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...There was a general consensus among Hillelstudents that [a multicultural center] was a goodidea," Finestone said...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Tales From 74 Mt. Auburn | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

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