Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After entering last weekend with a near stranglehold on the league's Gehrig Division, the Tigers nearly suffered a calamitous fall. Needing only one win in a four-game series with Cornell to secure the title, on Sunday night Princeton found itself down 0-3 in the series, needing a victory in the finale to continue its season...
Pressing the question further, O'Malley adds,"You know, I hate to be judgmental, but the peoplethat are the worst are not the old folks or theteenagers--although they usually can't drive wortha damn, and a teenager almost near killed meonce--but the most difficult people are the newyuppies," O'Malley says...
...bigger building is just way too big," Elissa N. Carlson, who lives near the site of the proposed development, told the council...
...recent article, Scarry notes that EMIhas caused military aircraft crashes in the past.Between 1982 and 1988, six Black Hawk helicopterscrashed as a result of EMI, killing 22. During a1986 mission near Libya, EMI also caused the crashof an F111 bomber and disabled five others...
...times, but he continued jetting around the world to get more stories and interview leaders ranging from the awful--Saddam Hussein--to the awesome--Nelson Mandela--to the truly historic--Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, hours before he probably would have died, he received a heart transplant. He bravely endured near fatal attempts by his body to reject the new heart and came back to work and to more adventures. When he fell ill late last year, the doctors didn't think he would make it past Christmas. But in March, when TIME celebrated its 75th birthday, Karsten Prager, resplendent...