Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale is on the way down. After two quick wins, the Elis are in the midst of the first mini-slump of their season with straight two losses. With a 7-3 run of their own, Yale is keeping just above .500 overall with an 11-10 mark...
...finished their season on the short end of two consecutive shut-outs and with no goals in its last 150 minutes of play. Harvard had shut out RPI, 3-0 , in the ECAC tournament final on March 19. RPI had led the nation in goals per game before its slump...Jason Karmanos's third-period goal was the first of his five this year that wasn't the game-winning tally...Harvard had allowed two goals in three games against Brown...
...brigade," by Sports Illustrated magazine. Yet even U.S. ski officials seemed stunned by the team's sudden resurrection. "It's the most unbelievable thing I've seen in sports," said American coach Paul Major of Roffe-Steinrotter's win. The 26-year-old veteran's career was in a slump, and she had failed to place higher than eighth in any World Cup race since capturing a silver medal in the 1992 Albertville Olympics. As for Moe, he had not won a major downhill contest in five years -- and no American man had claimed an Olympic Alpine medal since...
...Finland's first direct presidential elections since the country gained independence from Russia in 1917, a former U.N. mediator has won the presidency. Martti Ahtisaari, 56, owes his ballotbox victory primarily to promises to battle recession. Now in its third year, Finland's present economic slump is its worst in 60 years...
...waited up after listening to President Kennedy give a speech on civil rights, heard Medgar's Oldsmobile pull into the driveway. Then a rifle fired from a honeysuckle thicket some 200 ft. away. Myrlie ran to the door and saw her 37-year-old husband, bloody and dying, slump toward the steps, his car keys still in hand. His arms had been laden with T shirts reading jim crow must go. The children ran out, crying "Daddy, Daddy, please get up, Daddy!" When he died, Mrs. Evers noted in her testimony, Medgar Evers was working for the simplest things...