Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were looking for a springboard to the Ivy League Tournament. We wanted it to be a low pressure situation where we could push ourselves and polish our game," Schafer said...
...last year's event, the Crimson placed 15th out of 21 teams. Harvard's score this year left it in 18th place, but team members said they are looking at the fall season as a springboard for the one that counts...
...Geisha, which will examine the war's disruption of traditional life in Japan--in this case he seems less concerned with history than with showing us, plainly, what war looks like. And it looks hellish. Still, one expects more from such an epic work, which should, ideally, be a springboard for discussion and contemplation...
...only people working for big outfits who are enrolling either. Self-employed decorative artist Jill Saddic, 29, of New York City recently completed a one-semester course in multimedia and design at N.Y.U.'s continuing-ed school. The certificate she received will help springboard her further into computer graphic arts. "I didn't really have any kind of computer background, but I felt that I needed a really specialized course to advance myself," says Saddic, who has a bachelor's degree in illustration. "Going back to school for another full-fledged degree just would not have been practical...
That, in the mind of Tomassoni meant not only hope, but it signaled what he felt was the end of the rebuilding era. The 1997-98 campaign was the springboard, and embedded within the 14-17-2 record is a sign of what the eighth-year coach hopes will come in the next few years...