Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slippery Rock lost its two starting two-meter players and its goalie last year to graduation, but the replacements have proven themselves as top competitors. Pam Peters and Erica Billish have come through for the Rockets in the hole, and freshman goalie Nancy Morris pulled off a rare shutout last week...
Granted, the Division I-AA playoff process--four games over five weeks--is grueling. But if the Ivy League has a team capable of being the Division I-AA champion (and this would be rare enough to warrant a parade in each Ivy city), that team should be given the chance to prove itself...
...peered at the plastic | leaves on the Swiss Family Robinson tree house, noting that they periodically wear out and need to be replaced leaf by leaf at a cost of $500,000. As his family strolled the park, he and his eldest son Breck stooped to pick up the rare piece of litter that the cleanup crew had somehow missed...
...cars for colleagues who need to get someplace in a hurry. A longtime Byrd supporter said, "If you took a pencil out, he'd sharpen it for you." Inouye is said to have the best shot at Byrd's endorsement if he can show enough solid early support, a rare commodity in a secret ballot, where Senators have been known to make up their minds early, but often...
...Phoebe Cates proves perfectly adequate to play vacuous Amanda, but Kiefer Sutherland is too awful to be believable as the awful Allagash. In the midst of all these city slickers. Tracy Pollan is a preppie breath of fresh air as a Princeton graduate student with whom Jamie spends a rare drug-free evening. Otherwise, it will come as no surprise that Oscar winning actress Dianne Wiest is competent as Jamie's beloved, bedridden mother, and Swoosie Kurtz is decent as what appears to be the only decent woman in New York City...