Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just as the prestige from Harvard's performance in 1996 sustained the team in the national rankings last year, UMass' success last season has kept it in this year's top 10 despite losses to Duke and Loyola...
...whole review system was in flux," Hart said. She added that the female faculty members were kept abreast of developments by Clark, ho held at least two meetings to explain the process...
...these circumstances Mandela opted for nonviolence as a strategy. He joined the Youth League of the African National Congress and became involved in programs of passive resistance against the laws that forced blacks to carry passes and kept them in a position of permanent servility...
What does surprise is the near virginal conviction of this sophisticated Pole that Providence has kept a watchful eye on him. His recovery in 1981 from an assassin's bullet the Pope would probably not term miraculous only because fastidious Catholic theology frowns on the use of that word, except when the theological department of weights and measures has been there with all its paraphernalia of skepticism and given an O.K. Still, he is known to believe that the good Lord had a hand in his survival, and he is said to believe that he is fated to be Pope...
Borders are mankind's way of measuring power. They expand and shrink, bend and break at the touch of human ambition. But as the century's empires came and left, life kept up its relentless pace...