Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact is, today's smokers, especially heavy smokers, know that smoking is bad for them, but that knowledge doesn't usually stop them. They develop a sort of split personality when it comes to their bad habit: ask any addict around campus (and there are still quite a few out there, despite enormous social pressures to quit), and he or she will tell you that she pushes the health-hazard right to the back of her mind whenever she smokes...
...with her [Luckenbill] when we were younger, so I know she's a great keeper," Totman said. "She's got a very physical presence. This may sound like a cliche, but soccer really is a team game, and if we play our game, she won't be able to stop...
Luckenbill might be able to stop some of the Crimson's less potent shots, but with the triple threat of co-captain Beth Zotter, freshman forward Joey Yenne, and Totman on offense, posting a shutout against the Crimson will be difficult...
...After our win over UConn, nothing is going to stop us," Totman said. "Dartmouth's record is okay, but we feel really good about this weekend, and we're going to play really well...
...Western journalists reported that some 50 refugees had been killed in a Russian rocket attack on a convoy heading for the border. But U.N. moves to send a humanitarian team to assess the needs of refugees from the conflict, and President Clinton's exhortation to the two sides to "stop fighting and start talking," signaled that Moscow may be unable to keep what it considers a domestic matter from becoming an international concern. "Russian foreign policy recognizes the U.N. as the final arbiter of international justice, and a U.N. mission to assess the needs of refugees that makes it harder...