Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Watkins 2-7 0-0 4; Hochstetler 0-4 0-0 1-4; Gorman 8-12 5-6 21; Ellenwood 5-7 1-2 11; Schlabach 0-0 0-0 0; Gardner 1-5 0-2 3; Pedon 1-2 0-0 3; Roberts 0-1 0-0 0; Sprang 1-3 2-2 4; Vance 0-0 0-0 0; Kalemba 0-0 0-0 0; Wilson 0-1 2-2 2; Maynard 2-2 0-1 4; Noles 2-3 0-0 5. TOTALS...
...justify it. Addressing the El Nino Community Preparedness Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., last month, Gore was quite unwilling to let El Nino speak for itself. After describing in lurid detail its predicted effects, he went into the presumed effects of global warming. Then, having set the trap, he sprang it: "While there is no definite link between El Ninos and overall climate change," he said (referring to global warming), "it is worth looking at recent patterns"--which he then presented so as to suggest precisely such a linkage...
This fall, two new periodicals targeting the college-age crowd sprang up in Harvard Square, adding to the area's already crowded supply of off-beat independent newspapers...
...Mahayanans saw the Buddha as a divinity to whom prayers could be addressed. They also revered--and hoped to become--bodhisattvas, fully enlightened, Buddha-like beings who had won the right to enter Nirvana but chose to be reborn on earth to enlighten others. A cornucopia of Mahayana offshoots sprang up over the centuries. Zen, which was adopted by the Japanese samurai class, combined chanting and teacher-student dialogue with an extremely strict sitting meditation practice, often enforced with whacks from a ceremonial wand. As a tool toward faster enlightenment, Zen's Rinzai school had its students wrestle conundrums...
...taking over Commercial Credit, a reject of computer-maker Control Data. It was not the job he wanted--Weill had been given the bum's rush when he offered himself as CEO of BankAmerica--but a spruced-up Commercial Credit gave Weill a springboard. And he sprang: he merged Commercial Credit with struggling Primerica in 1988, getting the Smith Barney brokerage with it. He bought Travelers insurance in two stages when that company was reeling from bad real estate investments. In 1993 Weill achieved a measure of sweet revenge over his old employer--buying back Shearson, the retail brokerage...