Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down service to millions of consumers and businesses when workers accidentally cut a high-capacity fiber-optic phone cable. Last week's misadventure will not enhance AT&T's reputation for reliability and could persuade some customers to farm out more business to the company's rivals MCI and Sprint...
When Evelyn Padham of West Milford, N.J., paid her $45 telephone bill to MCI last month, she did so with the comforting thought that $2.25 was going to help save the environment. Padham switched her phone service from Sprint this summer largely because MCI was offering new customers the opportunity to donate 5% of their monthly telephone bills to any of four major conservation groups: the Nature Conservancy, Ducks Unlimited, the National Audubon Society and the National Wildlife Federation. "I'm not real involved in the environmental movement," says Padham, "but this is something I can do to help...
...high marks at Kuwaiti schools and had attended college in the U.S. Kuwait was and is the only country they have ever known, and both men had risked their lives aiding the Kuwaiti resistance. They regularly moved money and guns around the city in Ali's white Chevrolet Sprint and had obtained a fake Iraqi identity card for the Plaza's Kuwaiti owner...
...meter mark, the Crimson made a charge and opened up a one-length lead. With 500 meters left, Harvard put on one final sprint to widen its lead. The Crimson won the race by open water...
Women athletes are no less susceptible to ego and endorphins than men, though their comebacks tend to be no-bucks, low-publicity events. But Nancy Lieberman Cline, 32, arguably the best woman basketball player ever, is working out several hours a day to make her third Olympic team, and sprint swimmer Jill Sterkel, 29, hopes to make her fifth. Why do it? Says Lieberman Cline: "As world-class athletes, we are treated special. Since the first moment anyone recognized we had an ounce of talent, we've been stroked. We're spoiled...