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Word: spurting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the Crimson's sudden scoring spurt soon fizzled. Unlike the match against UNH over the weekend, in which Harvard battled back to win the fifth and final game of the match, UMass shut down the Harvard offense and went on to a 15-9 game...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Falls to UMass | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

Maybe we should abolish adolescence altogether. Not the biological part, of course--the turbulent growth spurt and mental/physical/social adaptation. We are stuck with that. But it would be nice if we could get rid of the cultural mess we have made of the teenage years. Having deprived children of an innocent childhood, the least we could do is rescue them from an adolescence corrupted by every sleazy, violent and commercially lucrative fantasy that untrammeled adult venality, high-horsing on the First Amendment, can conceive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boys and the Bees | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

What's behind this shift to economy-sensitive "cyclical" stocks? The U.S. economy appears to be in no danger of slowing, and the world economy may be ready for a coordinated growth spurt. That promises to increase demand for manufactured goods, the equipment needed to make them and the raw materials that go into them. Indeed, commodities prices have been edging higher for a month. Cyclical companies can raise prices in that kind of environment, which makes them far less vulnerable to the dark side of economic growth--inflation and higher interest rates. If rates, which have also been going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to Basics | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson failed to reach the Friar bullpen after its initial four-run spurt, but Providence may have been better off if it had removed Lewis after the second...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Fries Up Friars 13-6 | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson failed to reach the Friar bullpen after its initial four-run spurt, but Providence may have been better off if it had removed Lewis after the second...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Fries Up Friars, 13-6 | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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