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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's Mike Shyjan found himself stagnating in a similar predicament. The nation's 11th-rated singles player dominated his first set over Matt Maltby at second singles but lost his precision in the second stanza. Maltby capitalized on Shyjan's erratic service game to prevail in the middle frame...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netmen Give Hawkeyes a Black Eye, 8-1 | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R. is scheduled to devise a structure for the union. Joseph Stalin is pushing for national groups to join the Russian Federation as autonomous republics. But Lenin wants all the regions, including Russia, to sign a treaty of equality and form a union. His view will ultimately prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviet Empire: Essay: Why the Empire Should Crumble | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

Freshman Cody Church stepped in for the sick Albert Kim at outside hitter and provided the Crimson with solid play up front. Church's slams were instrumental in helping the team prevail over the Big Green...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: Exhausted M. Spikers Bounce Big Green | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

...diplomat attached to the Bulgarian embassy in Belgrade, but he had come to see me in an "entirely private and unofficial capacity." He said he was "a personal friend" of Lukanov's, who had apparently contacted him through some sort of Balkan back channel and asked him to prevail on me, "very discreetly," not to run the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Case of the Shy Bulgarian | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The event had been billed as a make-or-break meeting for the Soviet leader and his unprecedented program of political and economic reforms. The question now was whether Gorbachev had been able to continue his remarkable winning streak and once again prevail over entrenched party conservatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let The Parties Begin | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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