Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teams were really unevenly matched, there was nothing we could do but score," Meacham said. "Since it was such a far away game, we didn't bring subs so we couldn't put in a second string...
...argue with President Reagan's remarkable string of successes. Our economy is now in the midst of the most powerful growth since the aftermath of World War II, due largely to the Keynesian tax out politics Reagan shepherded through Congress. Inflation was stopped dead in its tracks neat the 3 percent level a feat most economists predicted would take a decade or more. The unemployment rate has dropped steadily. The country has shaken off the national malaise that the Carter-Alondale Administration created to explain its own failings. The last majority of Americans would answer a resounding...
...clear. But one sophomore resident of Cabot House didn't have the choice last week. Jeannie D. Low's notebooks were among the unfortunate victims as tens of gallons of tainted water flooded from a faulty toilet in Briggs Hall, the most dramatic and only the latest in a string of incidents begging a response to the same old question: What does Harvard plan to do about deteriorating living conditions at the Radcliffe Quad...
Worry over the future of a small Statistics Department probably ceased when Harvard offered Donald B. Rubin a senior professorship. Boasting a string Ivy credits and a ten-year stint at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J., Rubin adds a practical knowledge of statistics and a willingness to share his experience...
...produced its own string of successes: the first 3 manned voyages to and from the moon in 1969, 1971 and 1972; the unmanned landing on Mars in 1976; and Pioneer 10, the first man-made object to leave the solar system, in 1972. But by 1975, the American commitment to space travel had begun to flag. In the tortoise-and-hare space competition, the methodical Soviets crept doggedly ahead, depending on incremental improvements in tried-and-true technologies, rather than the explosive leaps that have characterized American scientific and engineering advances in space...