Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Botterill is the best player in women's college hockey," Harvard Coach Katey Stone said after the win at UNH. "And I would be saying that even if she wasn't wearing a Harvard jersey. She has the complete package...
...contentious domestic issue of abortion is certainly not the appropriate solution. While the terms of this negotiation have finally broken the deadlock between the White House and Congress, it has drawn scathing criticism from abortion rights activists and Democratic presidential frontrunners Vice-President Al Gore '69 and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. And for good reason...
...principal explained why her school, like many others, was banning Pokemon cards: "Children who don't have Pokeman cards feel left out. When children bring the Pokeman cards into the lunchroom, they often spend time looking at the cards instead of eating lunch." A group of parents in New Jersey has sued the trading-card manufacturer for intentionally making some cards scarce to force children into buying more and more packs of Pokemon cards. "Racketeering!" the parents...
...doesn't make sense is that one of Gore's senior advisers, top-tier lobbyist Peter Knight, is a hired gun for pharmaceuticals giant Schering-Plough, which is in a red-hot battle to stretch out its patent for the best-selling allergy medication Claritin beyond 2002. The New Jersey-based company paid Knight's firm $100,000 in the first half of this year alone...
...tried a bill that would have shifted any patent-extension decision away from Congress to a new review board at the Patent and Trademark Office, and defined criteria for such extensions in ways that tended to favor the drug companies. But that bill, quietly introduced by New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, failed. This year the crusade has been more public: New Jersey's other Senator, Democrat Robert Torricelli, introduced the bill one day after the company gave $50,000 to the committee he chairs to help elect Democrats to the Senate. He says the timing was a coincidence...