Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Welcome to the Oil Game?the highest stakes, most dazzling game on earth. See the world's largest, wealthiest companies match wits with lumbering bureaucracies. Behold developing nations become Croesus-rich overnight. Watch capitalists try to raise billions for offshore drilling rigs taller than the Empire State Building, for supertankers bigger than aircraft carriers, for refineries that look like visions out of Star Wars. Be amazed as mesmerized millions of people place their bets on a future of abundant energy and hope for the best, in a game with rules so complex and fast changing that practically...
...Crimson's margin of victory was 12.5 seconds, close enough to the Yale bulge, and an even tighter match considering Yale and Penn rowed into a head wind--which is known to maximize race margins. Harvard and Penn rowed with a tail wind, which tends to shorten times between crews...
After sweeping Amherst and UMass--Amherst easily in their first two matches--the volleyballers dropped a tight, three-game match to Northeastern, falling, 15-12, in the decisive contest...
From there on in, the Crimson had to win every match to take the title; and they did, but not without a few gut-wrenching confrontations...
...stage for a dramatic finale, where the two once-beaten teams battled it out in a one-game match...