Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When she showed up for work as a Chicago prosecutor in 1972, Patricia Bobb fought off a stint in juvenile court, the usual first slot for a woman. Bobb, fresh out of Notre Dame Law School, won assignment to criminal court. She kept on winning: a streak of 22 victories in cases that went to the jury. In 1977 Bobb drew "what we call a heater - a hot first-degree murder that produced a two-month trial and lots of publicity." Lapsing into the trial lawyer's habit of assessing courtroom opportunity, she recalls, "It had every thing, blood...
...computer service costs $3 for the first 20 minutes during the nighttime and 17? a minute after that. The terminal, though, has a mean streak. When it beats a guest badly at electronic backgammon, it flashes on the TV screen, "You are obviously a rank amateur. Better luck next time...
What UMass did before 300 plus partisan spectators in Amherst Saturday was shut down a Harvard attack that after a slow early-season start had finally reached the top of its game Entering the quarterfinal showdown, the Ivy League champion Crimson was riding an eight game winning streak that stretched over one month. The last time the Crimson had lost, the date was April 17, the scene was Amherst, the opponent was the University of Massachusetts and the final score was 7-6 Saturday, exactly a month later, the Crimson relived that nightmare...
...laxwomen will take an impressive 12-3-1 mark and an even more impressive eight-game winning streak into Saturday's match with the tourney's fourth seed. The last time the Crimson dropped a game the date was April 17 and the opponent was the University of Massachusetts...
...Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder--whose Division I squad will take an 11-3-1 record and a seven-game winning streak into today's game--knows her squad can't afford to overlook the young Northwestern team. Kleinfelder notes it's just one loss and it'll be wait til next year. "It's one game at a time now," she says...