Word: sweep
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...Classic, that was the purpose, and Long Beach St. came out the winner. After participating in the NIT Tournament last year, the 49ers stumbled to a 2-5 start. But Long Beach St. Coach Seth Greenberg is buoyed for the 49ers Big West opening game after their sweep of Harvard and Brooklyn in the Classic...
Lamar Alexander is used to cleaning up big messes. When he walked into the Tennessee statehouse in 1979, his first chore was to sweep up after the scandal-tainted administration of his predecessor, Ray Blanton. Last week the two-term former Governor and current president of the University of Tennessee took on another big political cleanup job. President Bush asked him to become Secretary of Education and revitalize that Cabinet post after the forced resignation earlier this month of the lackluster Lauro Cavazos. One of Alexander's first priorities, however, will be to help extricate his new boss from...
...policy vacuum floundered this year, and the tactics of the environmental lobby were at least partly responsible. The contest over California's "Big Green," Proposition 128, for instance, was marked by overstatement on both sides of the issue. Prominent environmentalists, including EPA Administrator William Reilly, were troubled by the sweep of some of Big Green's provisions, like the pesticide curbs that would have banned any chemical found to cause cancer in any rat. Given the legitimate debate over many of the provisions in the proposition's 16,000 words, it was entirely possible for a Californian to vote against...
Nonetheless, the superiority of the American aircraft in both numbers and technology might be able to sweep the Iraqis from the skies in two or three days. The air offensive would then shift into a phase of low-level bombing (from as little as 200 ft.) in contrast to the high-altitude dogfighting of the first few days. Targets could include some war-related industries in northern Iraq and some command-and-control centers. But the bombing would probably be concentrated on military targets -- tank parks, antiaircraft and artillery concentrations, roads and bridges, fuel and water depots -- in southern Iraq...
...long as it emphasizes the sweep of history, this encyclopedia has dignity and flair. When it tries to keep up with current events, the book often resembles a hardbound USA Today. An untroubled Donald Trump appears, along with Wayne Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough...