Word: skid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Harvard will be on the road again this Thursday, taking on Boston College and trying to end an eight-game losing skid...
...then there is Northeastern. The Huskies had the most amazing collapse in college sports last season, racing to a 12-0 start and number-one national ranking before losing 12 of 13 the rest of the way, culminating the skid by dropping a 5-3 decision to Colgate in the first round of the playoffs...
...after the vehicle went out of control. The passenger's family retained Merritt to sue the manufacturer, claiming that the accident occurred when one side of a poorly designed handle bar gave way and the driver lost his balance. Merritt based his argument on the cycle's skid marks. For videotaped proof, Gibbs roared around a paved cycle track, went into a long, heart-stopping skid and crashed. Harley-Davidson settled out of court...
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco. A $350 million effort, in conjunction with Toronto-based real estate giant Olympia & York, to turn a 21-acre former Skid Row into a complex of festival-marketplace facilities, cafes, an amusement park inspired by Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, and an underground convention center, which is nearing completion...
Maryknoll priests train for seven years, with fieldwork overseas or in the prisons or skid rows of the U.S. The challenge attracts only a handful nowadays (only three men will be ordained this year), but the Maryknoll Society remains the biggest U.S. Catholic foreign mission, with 765 priests, 109 brothers and 68 lay missioners. The separate order of Maryknoll Sisters has 975 nuns...