Word: nearly
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Patterson's dropped punt near the end of the first quarter on the Crimson 17 led to Brown's only score of the first half...
...Taking the ball to within yards of the goal, Mounsey made a near perfect crossing pass to sophomore forward Hyun-Joo Park, flipping the ball over the sticks of a pair of Crimson defenders...
...Warren and Edith Bridges of Weymouth, Mass., were wary of the hard-sell tactics used to market time-shares. But 11 years ago, Bridges, 59, an electrician, and his wife, 57, a tutor, shelled out $8,000 for one week each year in a fully equipped two-bedroom "villa" near Disney World. The Bridgeses soon learned that they had acquired a valuable currency in today's booming vacation market. Before long they were trading their place for a week's skiing at Lake Tahoe or a visit to New Orleans. "I guess I always thought there was a scheme," says...
...occasional scam artist. Most recently, shady sales brokers have been preying on would-be sellers, charging up-front fees of $500 or demanding a 30% to 40% commission. Stewart and Peggy Spangler of Pawleys Island, S.C., have already spent more than $800 trying to sell their property near Fort Lauderdale...
...last six or eight weeks," he said, "I've had a learning experience." Make that a near-death experience--that vertiginous moment when a politician looks into the near future, sees himself writing his memoirs and responds with a frenzied attempt to connect. In the last days of the 1992 campaign, President Bush had that kind of revelation and jetted around the country, waving his arms and shouting himself hoarse. Gore's memento mori has come earlier in the cycle, so unlike Bush, he has time to come down from his adrenaline rush and make his case in a calmer...