Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afford to go on account of financial constraints. In light of this, the plan is both coercive and discriminatory. Faced with the tremendous (and rising) costs of education and the possibility of receiving no federal aid, low-income students would have no choice but to join the army or sweep city streets if they want to afford a college education...
...Elis--fresh off a sweep of Cornell and Columbia last weekend--are tied with Dartmouth for third place in the Ivies with a 4-2 record. Yale, however, returns an extremely young squad...
Cornell will need something to help it match up with the Crimson. Some outside force that can sweep over the Harvard bench and blow the Crimson off the ice. All the way to downtown Ithaca...
With 4:45 left in the game, the puck got behind Hughes and lingered just shy of the goal-line. In past years, the puck would have had just enough energy to sneak across the red strip. This year it stayed out long enough for defenseman Nick Carone to sweep it away...
Mebbe not. Yet Lonesome Dove rides rings around the overstuffed soap operas that usually pass for "epics" along Broadcast Row. Larry McMurtry's fat novel has been brought to TV -- by writer Bill Wittliff and director Simon Wincer -- with sweep, intelligence and sheer storytelling drive. Firmly anchoring the film is Robert Duvall's moving performance as the wry, philosophical ex-lawman Augustus McCrae. Tommy Lee Jones provides stern counterpoint as McCrae's partner, Woodrow F. Call. Dozens of finely etched characters surround them: a roguish ex-Ranger turned gambler (Robert Urich); a prostitute looking for escape (Diane Lane); a wimpy...