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Word: lift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Neither rookie played in Harvard's regular season finale, a 9-3 blowout at 13th-place Yale. Botterill also missed the two previous games, against Boston College and at No. 8 Princeton, but Ruggiero provided the game-winning goal to lift the Crimson over the Tigers in overtime...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 1 W. Hockey Tests Playoff Waters vs. Cornell | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...closer to the edge of the envelope than we ever were and are looking for something to test them in a different way," says Ralph Walton Jr., chairman of Crested Butte Mountain Resort, which has added a wilderness experience to its mix. Crested Butte has built a new lift to provide access to 550 acres of steep, ungroomed runs called Extreme Limits. It also offers guided snowshoe tours and telemark classes. Says Walton: "We made the decision that this was a niche that we were going to win over as fast as we could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steep, Deep and Deadly | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...initial expectation had been that Ashby would be found guilty of ?flat-hatting,? or reckless flying, in what seemed to be an open-and-shut case. But the defense convincingly argued that the ski lift was not on Ashby?s official map, that the jet?s altitude gauge malfunctioned and that Ashby believed speed and altitude restrictions in the area to be more lenient than they were. None of the defense arguments will make much of a difference to the local residents or to the large segment of Italy?s population that is left-leaning and opposed to an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marine's Acquittal in Cable Car Disaster Strains American-Italian Relations | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...found the spare, jack and that wrench thingy that can double as a murder weapon in times of emergency. I had learned how to do this all a while back, but apart from the fact that the jack goes somewhere under the car and is somehow made to lift the car up, I didn't remember much. So I consulted the owner's manual, which is of course written, or rather drawn, in such a way that, whenever possible, coherent sentences are substituted with a shoddy drawing...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Lessons Harvard Hasn't Taught Me | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...fadeaway three-pointer as the buzzer sounded to give the Crimson (10-14, 7-6 Ivy) a 69-67 win over their visiting Bears (12-14, 7-7). One night later Monti took an encore, finishing off a strong drive with a delicate finger roll as time expired to lift...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: W. Hoops Wins With Two Buzzer Beaters | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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