Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play, Washington was able to beat the Crimson down court, upfake, draw a foul and sink the lay-up. The play epitomized Harvard's less than spectacular transition defense...
...contrast, Apple Computer -- which has surpassed IBM as the leading PC maker for the first time ever -- is having a spectacular year, largely on the success of its laptop PowerBook. Apple and Compaq are reaping the benefits of huge demand sparked by aggressive price cutting. Workstation manufacturers, such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, are also enjoying strong demand for their machines. IBM is still catching up in workstations. Although it developed superb technology years ago, the company sat on it out of fear that it would cannibalize IBM's bread-and-butter mainframe business...
...bombing attempt in London. Police discovered and disarmed a load of explosives hidden in a van parked in central London's West End. It was the third I.R.A. attack that authorities have managed to disrupt in the past two weeks, although last April three people were killed in a spectacular bombing that caused $1 billion in damage to the financial district. In the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast, meanwhile, 27 bystanders were injured last week when panic broke out upon discovery of a bomb hidden in a travel agency. Said Michael Mates, British security minister for Northern Ireland...
...Good Men opens with an elite Marine drill team, resplendent in dress blues, executing spectacular variations on the manual of arms. In itself an entrancing sequence, it comes to symbolize something more as the film develops...
...This store is spectacular. It's the outer limits," Munro adds...