Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman Mia Costello was another big winner for the Crimson, emerging victorious three of the four times she entered the water. Costello swept the breaststokes with first-place finishes...
...future pro-Soviet elite. Afghanistan's history is being rewritten in order to suit the new regime. Russian has been substituted for English as the first foreign language in Afghan schools. The rudimentary education system which existed in the countryside, where 80 percent of the population lives, has been swept away. Many of Afganistan's ancestral monuments, for example the mosques in Herat (considered as international landmarks by UNESCO) have been seriously damaged by the fighting...
...Harvard men's fencing team was also swept over the weekend by Penn, 19-8, and Columbia...
Cleary's strategy appeared to be a stroke of genius after the first weekend of the season, when Harvard swept ECAC and Ivy League rivals Brown and Yale. Devin made several key stops in a 5-2 victory over the Bruins, while McEvoy effectively shut down Eli shooters as the Crimson notched a 4-1 win the next night...
...huge judgment could have a further chilling effect on the speculation that has swept the high-tech, high-volume stock market of the '80s. Boesky (pronounced Boe-ski), the son of a Russian immigrant, often played a central role in the dealmaking. His career was based on the high- rolling game known as risk arbitrage -- the opportunistic buying and selling of stocks in companies that appear on the verge of being taken over by other firms. The prices of those securities generally surge, giving arbitragers the chance to make swift profits...