Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When they came through against Santa Clara, it meant Harvard's first tournament win outside Boston in 23 years. When they didn't against St. Joseph's, it meant a 19-point blowout loss...
...Harvard has become a guard-oriented team. Coach Frank Sullivan moved 6'7 sophomore Dan Clemente from swingman to power forward and inserted a third guard--6'2 junior Damian Long--into the starting lineup against Northeastern and has stuck with that lineup over the past three games. That meant the Crimson started three players smaller than 6'3 against St. Joseph's, even though seven of the Hawks' top nine players are at least...
...strikes you about McGwire. Revealed in his deep green eyes is a self-knowledge as imposing as his size and strength: I am who I am, what you see is what you get, and if I'm going to hit 70 home runs, well, that's what I was meant to do. He actually calls it "karma," which is not a usual baseball-player word, and his acceptance of it relaxes him. And focuses...
...right option. But Clinton decided he would wait to see Butler's actual report before giving the go order. Before the call ended, there was a second discussion, this time about what Berger carefully described as "any other factors that should lead us to do anything differently." What he meant was the certainty of a political storm in Washington about the timing of the attacks. Despite the President's notorious ability to compartmentalize, holding one set of problems separate in his mind from another, there were no compartments so airtight that they could keep him from noticing that a bombing...
...once they can be dragged from their slovenly trailer, their cigarette breaks and their pub crawling--keep accidentally killing people on the job, marks a terrific debut. As the story veers into increasingly surreal territory--just who, or what, is that new fence Tam and Richie are building meant to keep in?--Mills makes the life of the manual laborer deadly but never dull...