Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman quarterback Rich Linden, who appears to have wrested the starting job from junior Jay Snowden, eluded a vicious Princeton pass rush, heaving a 16-yard strike to junior wide receiver Mark Drakos in the right half of the end zone for the first offensive score of the game...
Sophomore safety Derek Yankoff intercepted two passes, one near the end of each, half, and the second one sealed the game for Harvard. Freshman quarterback Rich Linden earned Ivy League rookie of the week honors with two touchdown passes in his first start, including a 46-yard strike to Colby Skelton two minutes into the fourth quarter...
...outbreak of labor strife at General Motors' plants in Canada has cast into doubt the rollout of GM's all-new Chevrolet minivan and other 1997 models. All production was halted in Canada last week after 28,500 members of the Canadian Auto Workers union walked out in a strike that has deprived some U.S. plants of vital parts. Without a settlement, analysts say, the company may have to close its 24 U.S. parts-and-assembly plants by the end of the month...
...with his realization that "the wheel of fortune is badly unbalanced in favor of the overseers and against the players." His call has been taken up by coaches, administrators, journalists and the athletes themselves. Some of the more radical proponents of change wonder openly about the possibility of a strike on, say, the eve of the championship game in basketball's Final Four...
...Iraqi affair. Erbil is situated inside the safe-haven zone imposed by the U.N. in 1991. Since the invasion of Kuwait, the Arab world has expelled Saddam and his regime. Since then, he has broken every law in the book. The Arab countries, in objecting to the American air strike, give the impression that they didn't like President Clinton's support of the Kurds. But why didn't they object to the air strikes on southern Iraq in 1993 and 1994? Why didn't they condemn the bombing of Erbil? The Arab countries condemned the chemical-weapons bombing...