Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wouldn't you know, just when the money is starting to roll in, the foundation on which the Big Three built their empires is starting to look a little shaky. Tough new competitors are looming on the horizon, some 40,000 small local and regional systems are coming from behind, and -- most ominously -- the whole idea of competing commercial computer networks is being undermined by the network that connects them all: the Internet. "Don't look now," warns the headline on an Internet article in the current issue of Wired magazine, "but Prodigy, AOL and CompuServe are suddenly obsolete...
...those numbers you learn early on in life, its square root being 12. It is also the average speed of wafted ball in a jai alai match, the average number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie roll pop and the average poundage of food wasted on a Wednesday in any given Harvard dining hall...
While Harvard made an impression on Maranzana's squad with the high-powered 39-32 beginning of the Tim Murphy era, the Bison will clearly not roll over for the Crimson offensive attack this weekend. After allowing 45 points against Hofstra two weeks ago, however, Bucknell seems to be more vulnerable on defense than offense...
...Sibelius concerto's first movement consists of a series of impressive solo passages interspersed with cascading tuttis and fine wind entrances. As the orchestra began, its glistening harmonics were accompanied by a low roll of thunder; it was raining hard by the third movement. Kremer played the beginning of the first lick a bit raggedly but was well on target by the time he handed the melodic line over to the orchestra. His second solo passage came off perfectly, with brilliantly intoned harmonizations...
Think of him as Dan Quayle with brains and a degree in psychiatry. Call him God's golfer. It's hard not to roll your eyes when M. Scott Peck, M.D., personal-enrichment guru to the nation's conflicted upper middle class, author of The Road Less Traveled, a self-help manual whose sales have placed it on the New York Times best-seller list for the past 566 weeks, announces that he is sponsoring a $10,000-a-foursome golf tournament to promote "spirituality, golf and the fine art of business management." Business biggies will tee off this weekend...