Word: shatters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John McNiff and Dartmouth's Shon Page, respectively, you wouldn't have expected Harvard to hold All-Ivy tailback Nick Badalato to 14 yards on the ground. After the Harvard D had held Dartmouth to 25 passing yards, you wouldn't have expected Brown reserve QB Mike Lenkaitis to shatter school records with 353 yards and four TD's through the air on 30-for-55 passing...
...glaziers of Jerusalem will be rich if the intifadeh goes on like this. They charge $1,500 to install car windows that are shatter-resistant. People are paying. The Palestinian uprising is 2 1/2 years old. It has hardened into a dreary, bitter ritual. The reciprocal stoning and beating obey Newton's Third Law of Motion -- for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Each side has found its threshold of acceptable suffering and cruelty...
...have trouble making a decision or a statement. Maybe they are just a little too cynical when it comes to the world. But their realism may help them keep shuffling along with their good intentions, no matter what life throws at them. That resignation leaves them no illusions to shatter, no false expectations to deflate. In the long run, even with their fits and starts, they may accomplish more of their goals than past generations did. "No one is going to say we are anything but slow and steady, but how else are we going to go?" asks Ann Evangelista...
...prairie province of Manitoba, Elijah Harper, a Cree Indian and member of the legislative assembly, repeatedly blocked debate on the same ratification issue. The clock was ticking: if either legislature fails to approve the agreement by June 23, a delicate compromise over Quebec's place in Canada could shatter, leading, in the direst of scenarios, to the country's breakup...
...process will be long and painful. There will probably be explosions of violence that may shatter the imperial superstructure. Those parts of the empire that were never integrated into Russia and that are now gravitating toward the West or to the Muslim world may eventually leave. But the rest of the country will not suffer a mortal blow as a result. In fact, quite the contrary: the revival of a Russia shorn of the least compatible remnants of its imperial legacy may encourage the development of a new federation whose diversity is, once again, a source of strength rather than...