Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answered Scorsune's score, as Jeff Oates scored off a rebound near the crease...
...Monti's miss exemplified an evening of near-misses for the Crimson. Although Harvard scored just 48 points, it was not for lack of chances...
...Harvard actually held a three-point advantage well into the second half, when Suzie Miller stole the ball near midcourt and converted an easy lay-up to put the Crimson up 40-37 at the 13:54 mark...
...plant manager for Magna's Decoma division, which specializes in exterior systems, has been along for much of the company's ride to success; he now oversees 300 employees who engineer and make high-tech plastic bumper covers and grilles for Chrysler, GM and Honda at a plant near the company's headquarters in Aurora, Ont., about 20 miles north of Toronto. "Each year we get more and more into what the customers are asking for," he yells over the roar and hiss of 15 molding machines. "In the old days, a customer would have one supplier that shipped grilles...
...most demonized Mao and, by extension, all of what became known as Red China. Later, in the 1970s, I lived in Hong Kong, where, peering across the border, I had the chance to observe Mao's last days, when the notorious Gang of Four reduced China to chaos and near anarchy. I thought then that Luce was probably right. China was a country that couldn't be trusted, as an ally or as a competitor, and the diplomats who thought otherwise, preferring what we now call "constructive engagement" to containment, were making a mistake...