Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Harvard outshot UNH, 24-8, in Sunday's game, 100 minutes of hockey passed without a goal. UNH goalie Amy Agulay made 23 saves, and Mary Pearsall stopped four more shots to thwart the Crimson in the shootout...
After an initial shootout leaving more than a few secret service men strewn across the cabin, the rest of the passengers are locked into a conference room and held hostage with the promise that until Radek is released, one hostage will be executed each half hour. What the hijackers don't know is that the President, whom everyone believes has escaped in a special emergency "pod," is beginning a little guerrilla warfare from within the bowels of the plane...
...jailed briefly and then thrown out of the country. Why this overreaction? And why, he wonders, were all the terrorists killed, when what they wanted was negotiation? Most puzzling, what happened to the unarmed, unworldly microbiologist who had desperately tried to tell him something just before the shootout...
...been nine months since Clinton played federal marshal in the Great Yellowstone Mine Shootout. The dispute began in the late 1980s as new techniques for locating pay dirt suddenly turned old claims on Henderson into a $1 billion lode of extractable ore. The glitch was that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed...
...Second Annual Eastern Senior All-Star game provided a surplus of excitment and goals for the 3,203 men's college hockey fans in attendance today as the ECAC all-stars edged the Hockey East seniors, 10-8, in an up-and-down, run-and-gun offensive shootout at the University of Vermont's Gutterson Fieldhouse...