Word: repeater
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year was a roller coaster that began with a shocking 24-0 loss at Columbia, but entering Week Nine, the Crimson was 3-2 in the Ivy and could guarantee a tie for the title by beating Penn and Yale. Two losses ended those repeat dreams...
...With its repeat hopes dashed, the only thing that left to save the season would be a win at home in The Game...
...cash went to help the army get leaner, not meaner. From a mid-1970s high of 4 million soldiers, the army now fields some 2 million. And even that massive khaki swarm is armed mostly with Mao-era weapons. Explains Brookings Institution China expert David Shambaugh: "They have no, repeat no, 1990s weapons in their inventory." Though China's procurement officials are easy to spot working the Paris Air Show and other military fests, they are mostly window shopping. The P.L.A. has sampled some 1970s-era high-tech toys like Soviet Su-27 jets, but most of the cool...
...This one is 1999 AN10, a kilometer-wide hulk that in 2027 could hurtle past us as little as 20,000 miles away. First spotted in January, the asteroid attracted little attention when Italian astronomers posted preliminary calculations of its orbit on their website. But when these results were repeated on CCnet, a widely read e-mail network, some astronomers were outraged. They felt an unwarranted repeat of last year's scare would be the astronomical equivalent of crying wolf and could lead to public indifference. But news of 1999 AN10 spurred other astronomers to track the asteroid. They posited...
There is literally no chance of a repeat -- Tiananmen Square is being resurfaced, and is blocked off by a wall of corrugated metal. On the spot where a dead soldier's body was burned by an angry mob, a shopping mall now stands -- a sign that priorities have changed. TIME Asia deputy editor Adi Ignatius says that "people in Beijing are no longer hung up on Tiananmen." Capitalism is more important than democracy now, and that's just fine with the government. But with critics in the West watching closer than ever for signs of a China they can hate...