Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plays later, Bucknell's corner Nate Musselman intercepted a Linden pass on a broken play and ran it back to midfield. Just over a minute later, McDowell avoided a sack to sprint 30 yards before being tackled by alert junior Derek Yankoff...
...Pennsylvania and Boston College, Harvard was lured into a game of long balls, abandoning its basic principles and the strength of its short game. Both the midfield and the backs were content to loft balls into the offensive zone, forcing the frontrunners to be caught in a continuous, futile sprint for the ball...
WorldCom is now the country's fourth largest long-distance company--but it's a three-horse race. So instead of fighting for retail customers with AT&T, MCI and Sprint, WorldCom is creating something akin to its own private global telecommunications network. It has made 40 acquisitions in the past five years, including one that netted UUNet, the world's largest provider of high-speed hookups to the Internet. That's why WorldCom agreed to pay $1.2 billion for CompuServe and then traded that company's consumer subscribers to AOL in exchange for ANS, AOL's own networking...
...remarkable progress, given where the Chinese started. As recently as 1985, for example, the eastern city of Nanjing had just four nonbusiness phone lines. And the 100 million lines are really just the start: the plan calls for 600 million by 2020. American firms such as AT&T and SPRINT are waiting to cash in, but Wu says the country won't open up to Candice Bergen just yet. Instead the Chinese government will continue to control the lucrative telecom monopoly. The most glorious numbers, bureaucrats realize, come with renminbi signs in front...
...Phoenix, Ariz.; two of its own regional centers; and a few stray agreements with Baby Bells. Thus when you're in, say, Oregon calling to find a Florida number, your long-distance information operator is now likely to be in Phoenix; Scranton, Pa.; or Augusta, Ga. (MCI and Sprint still have agreements with the Bells--but that could change too once they start competing locally...