Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quick look at the numbers for the match would seem to indicate an easy victory for Harvard. The team as a whole had an impressive 0.322 hitting percentage for the match but was still unable to pull out the victory...
...reason that our stats seem so impressive is that it was a very long match with long rallies," Guilianelli said. "The two teams were pretty evenly matched, and we battled back-and-forth, which is why both teams were successful offensively...
...local fauna. That's why the Easter Bilby has caught on. The beady-eyed 5-lb. marsupial is on the endangered-species list thanks to rabbits, but its candy version has prospered, scoring 10% of all the country's Easter-chocolate sales. Somehow the Playboy Bilby doesn't seem as cute an idea...
...electroencephalogram, the researchers taught two ALS sufferers to mentally signal the computer to pick out letters on a screen, spelling out messages. The process is agonizingly slow--the average pace is about two characters a minute--but it should eventually improve. And compared with utter silence, it must seem blistering...
...developer, and his partners have offered $800 million to buy the National Football League's Washington Redskins franchise. The bid was not only $200 million better than anyone else's but would be the largest price ever for a North American sports team. Still, the NFL owners don't seem to want Milstein's money. Although Milstein says he has restructured the financing to meet league guidelines, sources say the offer is too highly leveraged. It's an ironic argument from a group of older white men who mainly got their teams for a song way back when...