Word: last-gasp
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...reverse his meteoric rise in the polls. Several tracking surveys showed his support at 16%, down a bit from around 20% but still more than enough to make Perot's wild-card effect on the campaign both important and unpredictable. The Texan is putting on a last-gasp TV advertising blitz like none ever seen before. His campaign has spent just under $60 million so far, and that figure will grow sharply in the final week...
Harvard's Maura Healey tried a last-gasp shot in the game's final moments, but the shot bounced helplessly off the backboard...
Totalitarianism dies hard, taking innocents with it. But the Soviet military campaign against the Baltics has a spasmodic, last-gasp quality. Similarly, the late, unlamented Warsaw Pact was probably the only military alliance in history that did nothing but invade its own member states, and the Yugoslav army has finally seen action -- in a civil war. The federal government's bullying of Slovenia is a reminder that fear and force are all that keep these decrepit regimes together...
...Last Thursday's heartbreaking loss to the Cougars--which eluded Harvard, 5-4, in a last-gasp comeback--and two run-away wins over Fresno State and Cal-Poly Pomona should serve as a welcome boost to the Crimson's confidence heading into Ivy League action which begins this week...
...spectacle of stars born and reborn. Cecil Fielder, exiled to Japan last year, signs with Detroit and threatens to become the first American Leaguer to bop 50 home runs since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit. The arms of half the Dodgers' pitchers fall off, but the slim, steely mound grace of rookie Ramon Martinez helps sustain Los Angeles in a last-gasp pennant race...