Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three of the Tournament games are pretty similar," Brown said. "Still the atmosphere of the games and the chance to prove ourselves are what we're looking forward...
Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, her assistants and her players--as well as the on-campus media--have spent years griping about how Harvard and the Ivy League deserve more respect in women's basketball. Well Coach, now you have the setting, the stage and the audience to prove...
...Crimson has the opportunity to prove that such a seeding was, in fact, in order. Granted, the point will be much more difficult to make against an elite team like Stanford than it would have been against a two or three seed like Illinois, but none of that matters...
...unwelcome. Only the Great Depression--an apt name--had presented a comparable challenge to national optimism, and that was followed by the reassuring wartime victory and postwar boom. In the '70s that boom gave way to a different explosion--in oil prices, interest rates and inflation. OPEC would prove to have powers that NATO could only dream of. Even the environmental movement would sound a warning: air and water, the fundamentals of life, were in limited supply. Though that mood receded in the '80s, traces of it linger in the new skepticism about large government undertakings, whether that means health...
Gibson called that place "cyberspace." In the years since, there have been other names given to that shadowy space where our computer data reside: the Net, the Web, the Cloud, the information superhighway. But Gibson's coinage may prove the most enduring. By 1989 it had been borrowed to describe not some science-fiction fantasy but today's increasingly interconnected computer systems--especially the millions of computers jacked into the Internet...