Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things seemed bad after the Crimson's 32-straight dual meet winning streak was snapped Friday at Navy, they got a whole lot worse Saturday at Columbia...
What the Crimson had done in those last six years included an amazing 58-1 record on en route to six straight Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming (EISL) dual meet championships, five consecutive Eastern Seaboard Championships and collegiate swimming's longest active winning streak, until Navy pulled the biggest streak attack since Pearl Harbor...
...Greek freighter Antigoni was steaming through the Persian Gulf toward the Iranian port of Bandar-Khomeini when members of the crew saw a silver streak glinting above the waves. The next instant, a missile slammed into the ship's stern about 5 ft. above the water line, and the 15 crewmen scrambled into the lifeboat. "We were 500 meters away when there was a second explosion," said First Mate George Galakopoulos. "It cut the ship in two. There was so much smoke I couldn't see anything." The crew was saved, but the Antigoni and its cargo...
...company is in a better position to profit from this spending surge than Sears, Roebuck. The giant retail chain and catalogue merchant, largest in the U.S., is on a hot streak. After a decade in which profits sagged and the 97-year-old company seemed to have lost its sense of direction, Sears has found its way. During the first nine months of 1983, profits shot up 89%, to $759.5 million, while revenue surged 18%, to $25.1 billion. Around the Sears Tower, the 110-story black steel-and-glass skyscraper in downtown Chicago that still bears the title...
Though the game is supposed to be a light hearted end to a laugh season, the Bulldogs swam out seeking revenge from three earlier defeats at the hands of the nationally ranked Crimson aquamen. Conscious of their losing streak, the Elis played a rough game of punch and grab from the first whistle...