Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hawkins said that despite the low turnout of candidates, the elections were relatively successful...
...Wolves soon bounced back to win the next two games, 15-11 and 15-11. In the fourth and final game of the match, the Crimson jumped out to a quick 10-1 lead, but Harvard's battery soon ran low. USB suddenly surged ahead to gain a 13-11 lead, and the Sea Wolves eventually won the game...
...finished eighth at 205, out of a highly competitive field of 14, including national powers like No. 25 Dartmouth, which ran away with the meet, scoring just 40. (In cross-country scoring, low score wins). Host Iona, which finished second, was 28 points back...
...example, he quietly passed legislation that extended Medicaid benefits to a larger and larger pool of pregnant women and children, lowering the eligibility requirements a little bit more each year. He used the same strategy to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts money in the pockets of low-income workers, and he championed such modest but helpful measures as the mandated 48-hr. maternity stay in hospitals. This is a self-effacing leadership style; Bradley calls it being "the leader that people didn't know was a leader." But that kind of leadership isn't necessarily presidential...
...beginning, a pretext, for what is, finally, a brilliant exercise in popular but palpable surrealism. The film has the bleached look of a carelessly shot videotape, with, occasionally, what Russell calls "very intense hits of color"--a Bart Simpson doll is one of them--burning through its low-contrast surface. This is how combat appears to us in the new technological age--no terrible beauty, just absurdity's flat, deadly record keeping...