Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defensive line once again held an opponent to less than 100 total yards on the ground and sacked Columbia's quarterbacks eight times...
...Picture Researcher Dorothy Affa Ames began assigning photographers to cover pre- Olympic meets in April, and since then has edited 5,000 pictures provided by a dozen photojournalists and a score of photo agencies. A former professional photographer, Affa Ames is convinced that "shooting sports is an excellent training ground for news photography...
...capital city of Dhaka, where the President's residence was knee-deep in water, streets had been transformed into canals. Boatmen were charging whatever the market would bear to move people to safe ground, but some clung to the roofs of their flooded huts to ward off looters. Ricksha Driver Mohammed Nasser, 18, boasted that he was making $5 a day carrying passengers through flooded streets. He will need the money: the shanty he shared with his mother and sister was washed away...
...students, then at least for the academy. Only by occupying high moral ground have the nation's universities maintained their respected position in American society. By debasing its actions to the level of a self-interested corporation, Harvard is rapidly losing its moral integrity. Venturing into the real world is an irrevocable step, and Harvard had better come to ethical terms with its own practices...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas--Thousands of coastal residents from Mexico to Louisiana fled to higher ground yesterday as fierce Hurricane Gilbert sent the first of its storms against Texas after thrashing the Yucatan Peninsula...