Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though spiffed-up versions of old standbys "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy" still attract cult followings, weak attempts at new shows abound on arcane cable channels, producing such soon-to-be forgotten titles as "Supermarket Sweep" and "That's My Dog." In its own class is "The Price is Right," enduring as an eternal relic of the past, with sets straight from the days when disco ruled and a box of SuperPolygrip cost...
Four teams control their own playoff destiny. Colgate needs one more point to guarantee a postseason position. Brown and Cornell need two to make the field of ten. Harvard has to sweep this weekend's games with St. Lawrence and Clarkson to ensure a trip to the playoffs...
...these teams will have to win at least three of its remaining games and more likely have to sweep to be seeded in the top half of the ECAC bracket...
...insiders were marking her as the favorite for the Ladies Figure Skating gold medal, even though MICHELLE KWAN has bragging rights as U.S. National champion. The two rivals, together with another former American champ, NICOLE BOBEK, are part of the team that has the Olympics murmuring, "U.S. medals sweep." That kind of talk isn't, of course, going down well with other competitors. Russia's MARIA BUTYRSKAYA settled on her target a month ago, sniffing, "Lipinski made mistakes in many competitions this season. I am a good skater too." Last week at practice, Butyrskaya looked impressive. Among the Americans, however...
...Harvard team of Wang and senior Julia Kim prevented the clean sweep with an 8-6 win over Vanderbilt's Kristen Radford and Staci Ryan...