Word: nets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest concerns on offense must be the scoring silence of junior Lawson DeVries. A volatile scoring threat last season, DeVries has yet to net a goal...
...They weren't really a strong offensive team," Pankau said. "They hit a lot of balls long, a lot of balls into the net and got a lot of shots blocked, so when our defense did get to handle balls, it responded well...
Harvard has given me an education, a lot of research money, and above all, an attitude. I have car loans to pay, a down payment on an apartment due soon and, without health insurance for the near future, a safety net to maintain. I have a job, but perhaps the most useful piece of advice I gleaned from Harvard's meat-and-potatoes, Ec10, was the importance of savings, and for soon-to-be impoverished students like myself, every penny counts. So I decide to take that $10 senior gift officers so often refer to and invest it at Cambridge...
...started trading during this great, four-year, 20%-plus S&P bonanza--may have stumbled on a bit of knowledge we old-timers can't seem to get into our heads. They regard bonds as risky, stocks as safe. Nothing could be more wealth-creating than those Gibraltars, the Net stocks, and nothing more dangerous than that 30-year piece of paper issued by that barely credit-worthy entity, the United States of America...
Sure, there are other benefits, such as being able to share printers, scanners, fax machines and zip drives, and to be able to swap files instantly. But Net access, particularly high-speed access, say industry analysts, will be what really drives consumer demand. New York research firm Jupiter Communications predicts that one-fifth of American homes will have a digital subscriber line, cable modem and other high-speed pipe by 2002. You can bet that everyone in those homes--whether they like to play games, shop, chat, or trade stocks online--will want to share the big bandwidth...