Word: sank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barred him from its public meetings until a judge ordered the ban lifted. But Comley's game evolved: instead of demanding that plants be shut down, he began insisting they be run safely. He teamed up with the sharp-witted Hadley to aid and abet whistle blowers and sank his life savings into We the People before taking a dime in donations. Comley, says the NRC's Norton, "has been useful in bringing important issues to our attention. Steve can be a very intense guy. I don't think it's good for his health. But people who seem...
With just under 11 minutes to play, Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith re-inserted Feaster and Reinhard into the line-up, and the substitutions paid instant dividends. Feaster sank a pair of freebies and Reinhard knocked down a trey from the right corner, pushing the Crimson advantage back to double digits, 58-45, with 7:48 remaining...
Trailing 59-53 with 9:09 remaining, Feaster sank a trey, cutting the Lady Colonials' lead in half. Gettelman connected from the deep corner three minutes later...
...effectively inside, the Crimson forced its passes and settled for bad shots from behind the three-point arc. The team shot a miserable 4 of 21 from three-point range for the evening. By contrast, the disciplined Cassovia team did not even attempt a three pointer until Tatjana Ingatenkova sank one with 3:40 remaining in the game...
...wage increase over 1 3/4 years after a six-month strike against the Catholic-run Mercy Hospital in Port Jervis, New York. Undaunted by the hiring of replacement workers, the nurses, who were members of the National Health and Human Service Employee union, picketed in weather that sometimes sank to -29 degrees C. "I would like to think our strike was a step forward for the labor movement," says Sue Murphy, a leader of the walkout...