Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard saw its first-half lead, 3-0, whittled away by Army, but thanks to tremendous goaltending by senior Greg Beber, was tied 6-6 with one minute remaining. Thirty seconds later, Bentley set up in the hole and fired a back-hand flip into goal for the apparent game-winner...
...Seltzer is not able to maintain a crucial balance: the one that his script intends between his two stars. Field is, as always, coolly expert, but with as much mystery about her as a bottle of Mop & Glo. Hanks, on the other hand, is our reigning master of desperate expediency. His amuck parody of Gene Kelly's Singin' in the Rain number goes into realms beyond performance...
...pivotal role in bringing Gorbachev to power in 1985, his recent public statements suggested that he was lukewarm about too much glasnost. If Chebrikov's new job makes him a watchdog over the activities of the Soviet security forces, his position may have been strengthened. On the other hand, as the Central Committee's new law-and-order secretary, he must deliver on Politburo promises to turn the Soviet Union into a nation "governed by law." Otherwise, he could be trampled in the next leadership shuffle...
...morning of Oct. 20 that I became truly frightened. The market, on that day, ceased to exist. One major stock after another was closed and could not be traded. With other markets around the world in a similar state of panic, a major financial crisis was obviously at hand...
...just two decades ago, is a bloated red-light area studded with 256 hotels. Indeed, the metaphor of selling out is given flesh by the embarrassing statistics of Thailand's sex trade: perhaps 250,000 women in Bangkok alone respond to the siren call of a business that goes hand-in-hand with tourism. And the get-rich-quick promise that tourists embody has also led to shadier enterprises: Thailand is already famous for its pickpockets, smugglers and heroin dealers...