Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cornell captain Kyle Knopp took the puck up the ice halfway through the second, looking to move the score ahead. Prestifilippo made two consecutive spectacular saves, coming up big for the Crimson defense...
...Israel also has a close relationship with the Kenyan authorities, and a history of operating in the region. Kenya was used as a staging ground for Israel's spectacular 1977 rescue of hijack hostages at Uganda's Entebbe airport, and later also for its emergency airlift of Ethiopian Jews. Israeli personnel took charge of rescue operations in Nairobi following the U.S. embassy bombing last July...
...world markets had entered a new and much more volatile phase. Summers has a favorite analogy: "Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular...
...Brown (15-2-3, 15-2-3 ECAC) put the only blemish in No. 1 Harvard's otherwise spectacular season by defeating the Crimson (20-1-0, 16-1-1), 4-2, in Providence Nov. 15. Harvard has reeled off 17 consecutive victories since that game, good for the nation's longest winning streak, but the Bears are still the only ECAC team that has not lost to the Crimson this year...
...latest from a young man who is without question Russia's most exciting pianist, this recital disc pairs two romantic masterpieces, the Bach-Busoni Chaconne and Schumann's Kreisleriana, plus a pair of shorter pieces by Beethoven (Rondo for Piano in G Major is one). These spectacular performances--big-boned and expansive, yet piercingly direct whenever they need to be--rank among the very best on record. Not since Vladimir Horowitz was in his absolute prime have we been privy to classical piano playing quite as bold, quite as ambitious as this...