Word: impress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday night's demonstration at Bright Hockey Center was for the most part slow-developing and chippy. It wasn't really Harvard's fault--the players did their darned best to impress the fans and coaches...
...counter the Soviet Union, Taiwan quietly and almost totally withdrew itself from the international scene. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, the PRC began to regain its confidence in playing a major role in global affairs, using mainly its physical power drawn from vast land and a huge population to impress the world as some tough guy whom you might hate but just can't ignore. In the meantime, Taiwan broke away from the illusion of fighting back, nearly stopped calling itself "Republic of China" in public and instead placed the focal point on its domestic development. And before long...
...class of '99 is using e-mail. Many of these students are not just aware, they are savvy. At last year's prefrosh weekend, the Harvard Computer Society thought it would try to dazzle these incoming first-years with the World Wide Web, a stunt which always seemed to impress parents. But the pre-frosh turned the tables; almost all who attended the demonstration had not only seen the web, but already had a web page somewhere else...
...Atlanta airport and Chrysler is the king of minivans. A likely lesson: if sprawl and diversity get in the way of market dominance, break up the company. A likely corollary: if all that stands between you and market dominance is a rival, buy up the competition. Such bold moves impress Wall Street. Such bold moves impress Wall Street...
...does not impress us with spectacular runs," Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. "However, every time you look up, he's got five more and five more....He's just an amazing running back...