Word: led
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might have led the revolution that's being celebrated with a weeklong holiday, but China has Deng to thank for turning it into an economic powerhouse. Following the disastrous famine that accompanied Mao's "Great Leap Forward" attempt to force the pace of industrialization in the '50s and the fratricidal mayhem of the Cultural Revolution, Deng quietly laid Mao's legacy to rest following the Great Leader's death in 1976. Deng's "long march" was down the road to capitalism. And with 20 years of an astonishing average annual growth rate of close to 10 percent - over the last...
...Three Kings seems at first quite fantastical: four bored soldiers, AWOL with a hum-vee, searching for buried treasure. With the grizzled Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), a disillusioned officer leading their illicit adventure, these swashbucklers embark upon their search for hidden Kuwaiti gold led by a secret map concealed in a captured Iraqi's ass, affectionately dubbed "the ass map," with a duffell bag filled with grenade rigged nerf footballs. Denied any of the war's action, these four soldiers enthusiastically seek their last chance to blow things up, now that the war is officially over. Russell goes...
Neither Columbia, nor Holy Cross are teams of the caliber the Red Raiders (3-1, 1-1 Patriot). It is led by senior quarterback Ryan Vena, who has completed 53-of-98 passes for 758 yards and 6 touchdowns this season. His numbers make Vena a candidate for the Walter Peyton award, the Heisman award for Division 1-AA football...
...course, if Vena dominates like last year this could all be moot. Colgate fumbled the ball six times last year, and Vena still led his team to a 34-14 win. But Harvard has an improved offense, and a senior-heavy defense so the still-favored Colgate should find a much harder match-up this year...
Junior outside hitter Angela Lutich led the way for the Crimson by chalking up 13 kills and 11 digs on the night. Hart added nine digs, and senior outside hitter Linda Jellison tacked on seven kills...