Word: rocketing
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...Vladimir Putin's domestic political standing, but foreign governments are less impressed. Russian forces Friday continued to pound Chechen villages -- for the benefit of a live TV audience for the first time in Russian history - and Western journalists reported that some 50 refugees had been killed in a Russian rocket attack on a convoy heading for the border. But U.N. moves to send a humanitarian team to assess the needs of refugees from the conflict, and President Clinton's exhortation to the two sides to "stop fighting and start talking," signaled that Moscow may be unable to keep what...
...ensuing corner, freshman back Emily Townsend stepped back and leaned into a rocket that somehow found its way through a mass of Harvard defenders and was pegged for the back of the Crimson goal until Cowan made a lunging save...
...place kickers, however, received the most help with the wind. Princeton sophomore Taylor Northrop also connected on a career best, a 52-yard rocket that effortlessly cleared the uprights...
Junior midfielder Meredith Stewart's rocket past Tigers' goaltender Catherine Glenn in the 99th minute of play shut down Princeton (10-3-1, 3-1-1 Ivy), bringing its ten-game unbeaten streak to a screeching halt...
According to the Election Commission, 40,257 active voters were registered for this year's election as of Sept. 2. However, many new voters--Malenfant estimated about 10,000--have registered since the 1997 election, as the city's population undergoes large amounts of change and housing prices rocket upwards...