Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to most accounts, the event was Dramatic. Epic. Heroic. Our boys in red, white and blue persevered through sand and rough. Justin Leonard's 45-foot Shot Heard Round the World was a thundering triumph for democracy. Our NATO allies were sent home empty-handed...
Freshman Dave Weinstein, also seeing his first college action, won two matches in the "C" flight before bowing out in the third round. Junior Mike Rich, who had lost to Choo in three sets in the "B" singles, paired up with sophomore Cillie Swart and lost 8-4 to the No. 2 seed, Clay and Burns. Junior Steve Moore reached the "C" field quarterfinals before losing to Sonny Avichal of Army...
...staff member of the National Security Council and then as special assistant to the President, Rice helped craft the strategy that brought the cold war to its peaceful end. Now supporters of George W. Bush are repeating Gorbachev's hope. Since bumbling through an embarrassing round of malapropisms and misstatements that raised questions about his ability to lead the world, Bush has turned to a coterie of foreign policy wonks to help mold his views on international affairs (and teach him the difference between Slovakia and Slovenia). This week Bush will get his first chance to show off what...
Having just locked up a sizable second round of venture capital, Della & James (from O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi) has become an object of both envy and contempt among other start-ups. ("You can't even call them a start-up anymore," grumbles a friend and fellow entrepreneur.) Herrin, 26, and Lefcourt, 30, come off as the girls who were too smart to talk to you in high school. Herrin had an outline for her wedding-registry business even before she entered Stanford in the fall of 1997. "I wanted to do something entrepreneurial," she says...
Chin pops into his office long enough to check his e-mail before he meets with the founders of TimeDance, a schedule-planning website that is looking for a second round of venture funding. While he listens to the company's pitch, Chin sips a diet Coke and leans back in his chair, hands clasped behind his head. He interjects constantly with enthusiasms. "This is just dynamite," he says at one point. "I could use this website 50 times a day. This could be ubiquitous." He arranges a second meeting...