Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June 10 contest on the Thames River in New London, Conn. the Crimson broke the upstream record for the third year in a row, Harvard (18:41.9) finished a full boat-length in front of the Eli (18:45.5), splintering the previous mark by more than 10 seconds...
...deal showed that the strategies of media kingpins are as fickle as a hemline length. For most of this year, Turner angled desperately to buy a TV network, first nbc in January and cbs until only a few weeks ago. Levin, for his part, had been talking of unloading the company's long-held 19% stake in tbs in order to pay down debt. The game changed when Disney and Cap Cities eloped, raising the ardor and insecurity of moguls everywhere...
...score until they see a rough cut of the finished film. In the early stages, says Horner, he may work on themes and instrumentation, but "I can't really start weaving the quilt until the film is locked, since I'm writing to sequences of fixed footage and length. In Braveheart I wanted to help the feeling of the fellow being a hero and a martyr. Most people would have scored his execution differently. I chose to score it softly, with strings and a boys' choir. To me that was the color of his sacrifice...
...women entered the more prestigious service academies in the mid-'70s, there was an effort made to ease their way. The first classes were substantial (119 women started at West Point in 1976), and standards were quietly made equivalent without being the same (hair could be cut to collar length, 18 push-ups in two minutes instead of some 40). Female officers now routinely graduate with distinction. In 1995, Rebecca Marier beat out 988 fellow cadets to graduate first at West Point...
McVeigh: The federal agents had been there several hours letting the crowd and media build up. Twice I asked for a [bulletproof] vest, but no one gave me one. When I walked out, the agents with me were an arm's length away from me. I expected to be shot and killed...