Word: nearly
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With Halgreen's three-foot-long red pony tail flying behind him, he rides down the ramp and then pumps up the other side. Then he plants both skates on the near coping and executes a shifty royale, leaning his knees, ankles and hips in the opposite direction of his movement on the coping...
After that goal, the Crimson didn't seem to want to let up. Sophomore Naomi Miller scored on a pass from junior Keren Gudeman a little over six minutes after Blain's tally. Near the end of the half, junior Emily Stauffer took a pass from Miller who beat two defenders to score...
...that used to deliver progress only contribute sclerosis. Critics roundly blamed bureaucratic ineptitude for the sluggish rescue response to last year's Kobe earthquake, which took more than 6,300 lives in the region. The same complaints were repeated last summer, when a food-poisoning epidemic in Sakai City, near Osaka, spread to affect nearly 5,800 people throughout the country. "If the politicians stick to the status quo, then we will lose our position in the world market," says Isamu Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast-growing economies...
Those Simpsons fans among us are undoubtedly familiar with "Blinky," the three-eyed fish that frolics in the river near the Springfield nuclear power plant. But how many are aware of the six-legged frogs that are turning up all over Minnesota...
...dumping their sewage illegally. It's somewhat reassuring that there has been a legal deadline established for stopping such dumping; the end of 1997. But you can only prevent what you know about. Let's hope that the government does find and stop all this nasty business in the near future, or those of us on the crew team may just have to learn to deal with an extra eye in the middle of the forehead...