Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard men's water polo team is so goal-oriented it could make a pre-med student cry--piling up an average of 24.1 scores per game over the weekend--but couldn't quite translate that into a four-game weekend sweep...
...story ran this week, without a picture, and with almost no mention of the stakeout. The reporter and the photographer came to feel a little bit dirty about following people. We wonder if such feelings of guilt ever sweep over Bob Woodward...
Regulations already on the books give consumers the right to have their names removed from telemarketers' lists. But an effort to ban recorded sales pitches has run afoul of free-speech protections. After Congress in 1991 prohibited the use of autodialers that delivered taped messages, an Oregon chimney sweep challenged the measure in federal court. Three months ago, he won a ruling that struck down the law; the FCC is expected to appeal...
...Pulitzer Prize in drama -- the first work ever to do so without being staged in New York City. Normally, the award brings box-office wealth and a clamor of producers seeking one's next work. But everything about this show is unusual: its length, its two-century sweep, its sprawling blend of domestic cruelty and historical revisionism. As a commercial venture, it is also daunting for its cast of 20 and the need to induce audiences to commit to two three-hour sessions. So it has taken nearly a year and a half to reach New York...
...kinsmen in the former republics of Yugoslavia, have together swallowed 90% of Bosnia's territory. The Serb militia is pounding on the gates of Sarajevo, and they are about to fly open. If nothing is done to police the Serb triumph and Muslim defeat, a final, horrifying bloodbath could sweep over the Bosnian capital and other Muslim enclaves. That fear spurred negotiators in Geneva and the Clinton Administration in Washington last week to try -- again -- to do something...