Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With four weeks left in the season, the Ivy League is as wide open as ever, leaving a solid probability that this season's version of The Game between Harvard and Yale might be the one that determines the league champion...
With the defense coming up big, wide receiver Steve Campbell (10-for-190 yards, 4 TD) and Perry broke the game wide open for the Bears. Campbell caught a 41-yard touchdown pass from Perry at the end of the 3rd quarter and then caught another--his fourth of the day--with 7:52 left in the game, to give Brown a seemingly insurmountable 44-23 lead...
...students make more informed decisions as they leave high school. "We're trying to help kids get their act together," says Cady. "We want to help them prepare for the next step in their lives." This includes not just college but also "alternative enrichment" options. At last week's open house, Cady told parents he thinks too many kids go to college for no particular reason, then drop out. He wants kids to know there are alternatives, such as hiking the Appalachian Trail or joining AmeriCorps...
...Herm brings his mini-sermon to a quick close. There is a scuffle and a muted shout, and the horde empties almost instantaneously into the fleet of cars. Out the open windows you can hear strains of September's inescapable novelty hit, Lou Bega's mildly salacious Mambo No. 5: "A little bit of Monica in my life/ A little bit of Erica by my side... / A little bit of Sandra in the sun/ A little bit of Mary all nightlong." The kids sing along. But not as loudly as they did in Club...
...beefed-up version of its AltaVista search engine today. Promotion spending for the next nine months is budgeted at $120 million, $8 million of which will be spent today. That's a lot of money, for sure, but it's still much cheaper than getting a portal on the open market. Yahoo wanna-be Lycos, another big CMGI investment, is currently worth $5 billion now, with the real Yahoo currently trading at nearly nine times that figure...