Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September 1993, the undergraduate members ofthe Fly voted unanimously to admit women. Thegraduate boards agreed with their decision, butthen asked that they repeat the vote before the1994 fall punch season...
Albright is convinced that thousands needlessly lost their lives in the Bosnian civil war because the West dithered. She vowed not to repeat that mistake in Kosovo. But by last month it seemed that Washington was going to do just that. The unarmed peace monitors who had been sent to the province watched helplessly as the slaughter continued. Albright, nervous about the quickly deteriorating truce, persuaded President Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen to deploy peacekeepers, then cajoled European foreign ministers into giving Milosevic a two-week deadline to accept a peace agreement or face NATO bombing. On a trip...
...bristling with security. Dozens of uniformed police officers accompanied jurors, and plainclothes Texas Rangers with Secret Service-style earphones encircled the witness stand, even as police helicopters swept the skies. And, of course, no one could get into the courtroom without going through those machines. Local officials feared a repeat of the marches that rocked the town after the death of James Byrd Jr. last summer. On the day of his funeral, both the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party marched on the courthouse. The former demanded fairness for its disciples; the latter demanded justice...
...This was true drama, the lordly versus the lowly--Princeton, the tanned veteran of countless NCAA campaigns, battling Harvard, the gritty upstart. For a brief spell near the end of regulation, the magic seemed wiped away, Princeton grabbing a 62-60 lead. Yet as things headed for a repeat of Friday's dismaying loss to Penn, Harvard--and its fans--rallied in the season's finest hour...
This was true drama, the lordly versus the lowly--Princeton, the tanned veteran of countless NCAA campaigns, battling Harvard, the gritty upstart. For a brief spell near the end of regulation, the magic seemed wiped away. Princeton grabbed a 62-60 lead. Yet as things headed for a repeat of Friday's dismaying loss to Penn, Harvard--and its fans--rallied in the season's finest hour...