Word: stepped
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...game looked to be just one more step in Harvard's quest for the Ivy League title. But Yale almost tripped the Crimson booters from behind...
Since winning the national championship during the 1983-'84 season, the Crimson has failed to advance past New Englands--the first-step toward national competition...
Slogging their way through heavy rains, 6,000 Indian troops surrounded Jaffna town in northern Sri Lanka last week and advanced in a four-pronged assault. Resisting them every step of the way were about 2,000 guerrillas from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the rebel group that has led a four-year struggle to gain an independent homeland for the West Virginia-size island's Tamil minority. Tens of thousands of terrified civilians were caught in the middle of the fighting. Most of them abandoned their homes and huddled in temples and schools, as food supplies grew scarce...
Like many of their competitors in the computer industry, Robin and Tom Bennett sometimes work 18 hours a day. But when the 30-year-old founders of Polar Engineering, a custom software firm, step outside the office, they do not have to contend with jostling lunch crowds or bumper-to-bumper commutes. Instead, the married couple can take quiet strolls through 25 acres of birch and spruce forest. Reason: their office is in their three-bedroom, 3,500-sq.- ft. home on Alaska's remote Kenai peninsula. The nearest neighbor lives half a mile away, and now and then...
...done a good job beating the scrub teams," Cassell said. "Now we've got to take the next step and beat the teams that take a little more effort. At some time, we're going to start beating Yale, Penn, and Princeton. I hope we start with some of those wins while I'm here...