Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly any furniture. "It's pretty sloppy," he offers. But Unz, 37, does have a hobby: attempting to turn public policy upside down. Over the past eight months, the multimillionaire Silicon Valley software entrepreneur has spent $1.2 million--more than half of it his own money--to pass a ballot initiative that would all but abolish bilingual education in California...
...think I'll pass. After all, there are plenty of ways to reduce my cholesterol without resorting to drugs. You can bet Merck will be doing further studies to see if people like me would be wise to start taking preventive lovastatin. But for now, I think I'll try to run an extra mile or two each week and cut more saturated fat from my diet. A pill may be easier, but I'd just as soon avoid...
...clutch buckets from junior co-captain-elect Suzie Miller helped Harvard end the game on a 9-2 run and oust the Cardinal from the post-season. The run began when, after a missed shot by Feaster, Stanford sophomore point guard Milena Flores grabbed the rebound and fired a pass upcourt to Honorable Mention AP All-American Olympia Scott, who would have had an uncontested lay-up at the other end that would have put Stanford ahead by five...
...Miller outdid herself 46 seconds later by knocking down the greatest shot of the season--and arguably in the history of Harvard basketball--with Harvard still nursing its slim 66-65 lead. Off of a missed three-pointer by Flores, Feaster grabbed the rebound and rifled a pass upcourt to freshman point guard Lisa Kowal, who found Miller all alone in the left corner. Miller caught and shot, burying the trifecta that extended Harvard's lead to 69-65 and sent the outnumbered Harvard contingent into a frenzy...
WASHINGTON: This was the one Ken Starr really needed. When the Supreme Court took a pass Thursday on the two legal disputes that Starr needed to have settled right away -- attorney-client privilege and the testimony of the Secret Service -- it essentially gave Clinton a six-month reprieve...