Word: striped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Green tallied the game's final goal less than four minutes later, when Pell broke free from her defender again around the midfield stripe. Rumbling down the right side-line, she found teammate Amy Coughlin open at the top of the circle and directed a long pass...
...intertwined predicaments of prejudice and the lagging economic performance of blacks. Those facts are complicated now as never before by the economic squeeze on people of all races in America. It makes many whites more impatient with black demands and provides an opening for demagogues of every stripe. But just two weeks after the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial, the march was another reminder that race is the inescapable complication of American life. "The Million Man March altered the landscape," says Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Henry Cisneros. "Americans know that things are profoundly wrong. The question...
...other end of the field, Harvard has been as stingy as possible. The biggest challenge freshman goalkeepers Jennifer Burney--the Ivy League Rookie of the Week--and Merideth Bagley seem to have is staying awake. Life can get lonely back there. The ball hardly ever crosses the midfield stripe with an opposing player controlling...
Others of a more cynical stripe would argue that the folks involved in these improprieties were bad apples, and that there was little Harvard could have done to save them. Perhaps that is true, but that kind of attitude isn't consistent with the idealism that liberal arts colleges have always represented in this country...
...conservative, and I am frightened by the likes of Timothy McVeigh and the militias that teeter on the edge of terrorism. These people are far beyond the scope of my beliefs. Paranoid anarchists have very little, if anything, in common with mainstream Americans of a conservative stripe. Tougher law enforcement is a hallmark issue with most conservatives and Republicans, and we favor greater empowerment of federal authorities to nail these fiends before they have a chance to strike again...