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Word: pressings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learned the art of flirtation, negotiation and compromise," Stewart recalls. "I also became intermittently acquainted with my own flaws. I learned some hard lessons about the media and press relations...

Author: By Harriett E. Green, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Back in The Good Old Days: A Visit to the Undergraduate Council's Past | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

While Harvard tried going to the full-court press from time to time, Marist was able to break it with relative ease. The Marist defense, however, while not as strong, was nonetheless effective at getting Harvard guards like freshman Elliott Prasse-Freeman to make bad decisions. Prasse-Freeman turned the ball over four times, often on poor interior passes...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marist Outfoxes M. Basketball, 87-82 | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...which included his twenty-fifth birthday, in captivity before he escaped and made a treacherous eleven-day journey out of Pretoria. Notwithstanding huge rewards offered for "W.S. Churchill, Dead or Alive," he arrived safely in Durban, where he learned that he was a hero not merely in the British press, but in the world's press. And what did Churchill then do? He immediately requested and received a commission and returned six weeks later to the site of his capture to lead the British forces in one of the decisive battles of the Boer War. And, of course, a book...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Remembering Greatness in Full | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...Bradley] doesn't need foreign policy training," Eric Hauser, Bradley's press secretary, told The Crimson...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: At Tufts, Bradley Criticiques Gore on Russia | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

...about "mathematizing the concept of betrayal through a series of algorithms and data structures." Most people might assume that betrayal is not easily mathematized, a subject for human emotion and not for symbol manipulators, but the computer seems to have picked up the vice rather well. (A Rensselaer press release states that the programmers also taught Brutus.1 something of deception, evil, "and to some extent voyeurism"-- a project giving new meaning to the phrase "your data is corrupted...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Creativity, Bit by Bit | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

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