Word: nets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playing for Boston College, got more than enough revenge as she finished a hat trick less than 15 minutes into the second. She staked out her territory around the goal--all three goals came on rebounds that she grabbed around the crease before finding open holes in the Harvard net...
Receiving the puck from junior winger Angie Francisco behind the net, classmate Tammy Shewchuk fed sophomore center Jen Botterill--Shewchuk's teammate on the Canadian National Team--in the slot. Botterill maneuvered around one defenseman before firing a shot past U.S. goaltender Sarah Teuting at 16:45 of the first period...
...happened two weeks ago, and I'm still faint with excitement. I feel like getting bumper stickers printed up: ASK ME ABOUT MY CABLE MODEM! For months, years even, I've been stalking my local phone and cable monopolies, only to be told that broadband access to the Net wasn't yet available on my block. The phone company's offering, known as DSL, isn't even on the horizon where I live on Long Island, N.Y. It was my cable monopoly, Cablevision, that finally won the race to my house...
...CNBC DAYTIME Like CNN and the Gulf War or Court TV and O.J., the financial-news net defined the boom era with its sharp, zesty, sports-jock-style coverage. In 1999, the business of America was business news, and cnbc's ticker--seen in bars, gyms, airports--was the frantic eeg of a stock-crazed, mercantile society...
...suddenly life will never be the same. It was like the first time I received an e-mail. Trust me on this: once you get high-speed access to the Net and it's at your disposal all the time, you'll understand what all the hoopla is about. It's faster than my connection at work. My two phone lines, which were always tied up with modem traffic, are now always free. My daughters can connect to AOL without ever hearing a busy signal. And my wife can buy things on eBay fast, without having to wait through endless...