Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that spurt that produced the Black Bears' lone goal. With nine minutes to go in the first half, Maine drove the ball into the Harvard circle and drew a corner. Crimson goaltender Jessica Milhollin stopped the shot, but she illegally deflected it, causing another corner. And after that there was another corner. And another...
...case hasn't helped Ford because, after an initial spurt, the sale of white Broncos actually declined during the first eight months of the trial. Nor did that case have a noticeable effect on the Akita dog business. The people at Hertz tell me their Simpson connection has not altered normal growth in profits and revenues one way or the other. Orange juice has enjoyed record sales, but a spokesman for the industry doubts the ex-defendant can take any credit...
That's quite a growth spurt considering that cybercafes are founded on the odd proposition that people will leave their home computer and trek to a bar--just so they can stare at a computer screen again. "People think it is asocial to sit at a computer terminal at a cafe," says Nicholas Barnes, the co-owner of Manhattan's @ Cafe. "But you can sit at the computer and discuss world politics with the people next to you or people in Singapore." Many singles, in fact, are finding cyberboites a congenial place for real, as opposed to virtual, mingling...
...roles the Big Guy may bite the dust in his latest flick, the word on Monster Island is that his lookalike offspring (introduced in 1993's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla) is being groomed to resume the series in just a couple of years. Junior G. need only finish his growth spurt, 20 more meters and 20,000 tons, and he'll soon be following in his dad's crater-like footsteps. JOHN DANIEL LEES, Founder Godzilla Society of North America Steinbach, Manitoba...
While Nickel admitted Brown has "not had ahistory of continuing expansion," he said theschool's women's sports program went through ahuge growth spurt in the 1970s...