Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Against Metro-Boston, the team came out a big intimidated by the senior national-level team, but played better as the game went on. Metro-Boston's offense dictated the tempo of the game early--despite the attimes spectacular play of Crimson goalie Amber Keasey--and managed to hold...
...earned a return of 16.7 Percent last year, better than the previous year's 11.8 percent, but still not spectacular compared to other university endowments. Yale, for example, earned a 17.3 percent return and has outperformed Harvard for five straight and eight of the last ten years...
...then there are the delays. Glassy-eyed passengers can spend days huddled in dimly lit waiting rooms called, with spectacular aptness, "accumulators." Last summer, after enduring four stuporous days stranded in Moscow's Vnukovo airport, 350 passengers stormed the runway in an attempt to force a plane to take them home. Riot police were called in, and three people were injured...
Weld's performance in the senior play was lessthan spectacular however, according to an openingnight review in The Crimson on March...
Most such spectacular swan dives by inexperienced candidates into national elections turn out to be suicidal. Berlusconi's quest for votes, however, was conducted with all the trappings of a high-powered American-style advertising campaign, complete with public relations consultants and sound-bite coaching. Not surprisingly, the key to success was television. With three national networks at his disposal, the fledgling candidate was able to meticulously craft an image of himself as a savior of a country mired in economic stagnation and convulsed by scandal. Gaps in campaign broadcasting laws allowed him to beam his televised pitch directly into...