Word: sank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have the shivers come back. When a goal by Melanie Allen '96 with four seconds left shocked the No. 7 Northeastern field hockey team. When the Harvard men's soccer team erupted with two overtime goals against Brown to take the 1994 Ivy Title. When Tim Hill '99 sank a last-second basket to send the Harvard-Penn game into overtime, where the Crimson would avenge its 1994 defeat...
...felt a twinge of sadness. It finally sank in that our days in the academy's sheltered confines were over. We recognized how much we really liked each other, but we knew we'd be scattering across America, probably never to see each other again. We aren't kids anymore. Many of us are renting apartments where we'll crash after working 12 hours each day in steely offices lit long after dark. Most are worried that the boardroom, the surgical room or the courtroom will squeeze the life out of us, even as it pays us handily. Almost...
...pair of water skis on Lake Pipen in Minnesota. In 1985 a surfer aptly named Tony Finn developed a hybrid between a water ski and a surfboard called the Skurfer. But that skiboard was so narrow and buoyant that only the most experienced skiers could work it. Before skiboarding sank like a stone, water-ski manufacturer Herb O'Brien came up with the Hyperlite, a carbon-graphite board of neutral buoyancy with large dimples on the bottom (phasers, to those in the know) that gave it a looser feel and made for softer landings from wake jumps. Skiboarders became wakeboarders...
...Newseum--an interactive museum dedicated to the history of journalism and (evidently) the propagation of stupid puns--just opened in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac from Washington. There was a lot of fanfare, as there always is when journalists gather to celebrate themselves. The Freedom Forum sank $50 million into the Newseum, and it shows. You can't turn around without bumping into some shiny chunk of high-tech hardware: touch-screen computers, Cinerama-style theaters and a video wall so large--126 ft. long, 10 1/2 ft. high--that it could theoretically accommodate 300 couch potatoes at the same...
...brakes on hearing that the economy grew an astounding 5.6% in the first quarter--too fast for comfort. But a closer look at the numbers showed inflation remained dormant. Don't put away the Dramamine just yet. The markets were jolted again on Friday after the jobless rate sank to a near 24-year low of 4.9%. Very inflationary. Later in the day, however, Washington's announcement of a budget deal sent the index soaring...