Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knocking off Pacific, UC-Irvine and the highly touted Waves, the Crimson reversed the tide of its opening three-game slide. Harvard will enter its key matches this weekend against top Eastern seed William & Mary with an invigorated outlook...
Next, the Crimson breezed by Pacific by 6-3 astop seed Dragomirescu snapped a personalfour-match slide to cap the Crimson win, whichalso marked a historic turning point in Harvardwomen's tennis. Three of Harvard's past Easternchampions had fallen to Pacific by identical 5-4scores...
Suddenly Japan is caught in a powerful downdraft of pessimism. A vexing combination of tightening financial conditions, trade tension with the U.S. and political weakness at the top has sent Tokyo's financial markets into a funk. The slide is threatening to choke the country's economic growth and sap the ebullient confidence that has filled Japanese investors and businessmen in recent years. "The pendulum has once again swung in Japan," says Richard Koo, a senior economist at the Nomura Research Institute. "It's now over to the doom-and-gloom side, when objectively speaking, Japanese companies remain the strongest...
Peninsula, by asserting that society must have some grounding in morality, is attempting to restrain Harvard from a slide into nihilism, and this should give its left-wing critics pause. No one today advocates the policy that homosexuals (to pick the current pet cause of campus liberals) be exterminated. Society agrees that such a policy would be evil. If the left gets what it wants, i.e. the moral vacuum of relativism, in another twenty years anything will be morally possible. Mike Reynolds '91 President, Harvard Conservative Club
...Eagle Has Landed: The Crimson learned during last season's slide that no game is too easy. And while Harvard traditionally has beaten Boston College, the Crimson must be serious about tomorrow's 3 P.m. matchup with the Eagles at Ohiri Field...