Word: routing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subject of one full episode, is like an event from prehistoric times; it can't happen here anymore. Yet the account of Hollywood's slick media campaign to defeat him might have come from a 1993 campaign adviser's handbook. The newsreel footage showing police trying to "rout out nests of communists hiding in empty boxcars" seems quaintly dated. Yet the headlines of plant closings and shots of homeless people on the streets look, alas, all too familiar...
...across the river, Harvard football has a bandwagon of its own to jump on. The Crimson looked good, real good during its 30-3 rout of Columbia last Saturday...
...tobacco stocks. Philip Morris shares plunged $14.75, to $49.38, and since the company is among the 30 firms whose stocks are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that bellwether index plummeted. A weak bond market and news that the unemployment rate remained at 7% in March helped intensify the rout on the Big Board. The Dow was down nearly 69 points on the day, to close...
...fifth-ranked Harvard women's lacrosse team, which had slipped in the national polls after a mediocre spring break showing, took a step last night toward reasserting its might with a 13-2 rout of Boston College...
...Serb gunners. Coincidentally or not, Serb forces mounted withering attacks throughout the region, forcing thousands of civilians into frigid mountain terrain. Despite the airlift's pressure on the advancing Serbs to move pre- emptively, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher insisted that "we have no indication" it sparked the rout. The United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, however, raised the specter of a Serb "massacre" of Muslims. At week's end Serb commanders offered to allow safe passage to fleeing civilians, a move that could save lives but would also amount to what a U.N. official called "taxi service...