Word: mark
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...freshman year, DePalo finished sixth in the Eastern League (EIBL) batting race with a .423 mark and helped lead Harvard to an EIBL title and the NCAA Tournament. In the tournament, the Crimson was eliminated in the Northeast regional after three games...
Because of Dukakis's inexperience in dealing with Congress and the general perception that he is weak on foreign policy and defense issues, Assistant Professor of Government Mark A. Peterson said that Glenn, Sen Albert Gore, Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.), or Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) would be desirable running mates since they make up for these apparent shortcomings...
...judge in the case, Mark L. Wolf, this Wednesday ruled against Gillette in the trial's first finding, saying that Mockler's company violated federal securities laws by publishing false and misleading advertising about the Coniston Group...
...Mark Twain never saw anything like this. When he piloted on the river more than a century ago, he wrote mostly about storms and floods and the excess water curving and shifting over banks and through new channels. He knew, though, the majesty of the great valley. "The basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation," is the description that starts his classic river chronicle. That remains true today and is reason for the profound concern...
When God created the American West, to paraphrase Mark Twain, he provided plenty of whiskey to drink and just enough water to fight over. In Twain's day, the Forty-Niners feuded with fists and pistols over who could divert which Sierra streams to separate gold from gravel. In the teens and Roaring Twenties, thirsty young Los Angeles brashly laid claim to a snow-fed mountain river, piped it 230 miles south to the city and dispatched armed guards to protect the aqueduct from outraged locals wielding dynamite...