Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson fought back fiercely from the deep ditch of defeat. Looking into the precipice, the Crimson's Albert Chang bumped off the Anteaters' Mike Roberts at fourth singles to shatter a personal three-game slide and notch the Crimson's first point...
...have a point. Labor experts say many employers may actually welcome strikes as an opportunity to shatter union power. With the use of permanent replacement workers, observed Peter Laarman, a spokesman for the United Auto Workers, "labor disputes often are not really about wages or benefits or working conditions, but rather about getting rid of the union altogether." That may become even easier if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Curtin Matheson Scientific in its case against the National Labor Relations Board. The Houston company is seeking to establish that an employer can reasonably assume that nonunion replacement workers...
...GORBACHEV still believed in preserving Communism at any cost, he would send the tanks rolling into Lithuania tomorrow. It would shatter his reformist image, but he could...
Sapp has some fundraising events in the works for the team to make them more visible and hopefully shatter the mistaken notion that the ski team is a club sport. He also hopes that the fundraisers will be successful enough to get some roller skis for pre-season training...
...highs and lows are, well, too high and low. Bass-baritone George London contends the Banner is "impossible to sing if you're sober." Opera singers have the best chance to cover the octave plus a fifth. But the soprano who starts a half-note too high will shatter glass and her hopes of auditioning for the Met by the time she gets to the "land of the free." She can forget getting deep enough for the "twilight's last gleaming...