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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elis seemed to settle down after that, tallying three goals in a row to go up 6-3, and the game looked as though it might end up as a rout. But Clark and MacNaughton cut the lead to one in the second half, and after a few more goal trades, Dahmen finally tied...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Lacrosse Hangs Tough with #20 Yale | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

...brothers, became a basketball prodigy. As a senior at Shadow Mountain High, he averaged 34 points a game while leading the team to the state title. Genes have something to do with it--uncle Jim Bibby pitched a no-hitter in 1973--but be careful about declaring this a rout for nature over nurture. Virginia is more responsible for Mike's genius than Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SONOFAGUN, HE'S BETTER | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...team celebrated a homecoming by trashing the Eagles of Boston College, 8-1. In the first match played at Harvard's Palmer-Dixon courts since the beginning of November, the Crimson (11-3) assured themselves of victory by winning 5 out of the 6 singles matches, and completed the rout with exciting dominant doubles play...

Author: By Lev F. Gerlovin, | Title: Women's Tennis Dominates Eagles | 4/4/1997 | See Source »

...massacre to pull back the reforms--or at least slow their pace. And as Deng retreated into a self-critical silence, they seemed to succeed. But Deng, though increasingly frail, fought back. In February 1992, sensing that the populace was exasperated by conservative austerities, he emerged from seclusion to rout his opponents. His stratagem: leading high officials on a tour of Shenzhen and Zhuhai, his prosperous economic enclaves. Nearly deaf by now, he urged Chinese to "seize the opportunity" of such go-go, free-market examples. The result was an explosion of economic growth and the elevation of "Deng Xiaoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENG XIAOPING: THE LAST EMPEROR | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...only broke the record, but recorded nine more in the Crimson's rout of the Tigers...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: ATHLETE of the WEEK | 2/14/1997 | See Source »

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