Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard had hoped to run the ball a lot--and well--against UMass, utilizing a ball control offense to keep the Minutemen's dangerous running back tandem of Garry Pearson and Tom Murray off the field as much as possible...
...McCabe--83 yards on 20 carries, one TD--and McGugan tandem looked especially sharp in contrast to the inept Columbia backs. Although tailback Tom Norton rushed for a respectable 70 yards on 19 carries, his hapless mates combined for -9 yards to bring the Lions' total to 61 overall...
After three plays netted a grand total of minus-four yards, Columbia decided to go for it on fourth and 14 from their own 11, and Witkowski and his exceptional wide receiver tandem of Bill Reggio and Don Lewis really started to click...
...Force general and his allies mapped out their strike plan. The target was not an enemy capital but Capitol Hill, and the battle was over which firm would land a multibillion-dollar contract for military cargo planes. The allies in this case were Lockheed executives working in tandem with the Pentagon to sell Congress the C-5B over its rival, Boeing's 747. In one of the fiercest and, some say, most shameless lobbying battles Congress has seen in decades, the issue of which plane was better often became obscured in partisan crossfire. The air war ended last week...
...cultural identity of a firm can range from supercharged overdrive to bureaucratic caution. At Tandem Computers Inc., a rapidly growing high-tech firm south of San Francisco, the work week ritualistically climaxes in Friday-afternoon company-sponsored beer busts in the company cafeteria. By contrast, Dallas-based Mary Kay Cosmetics seeks more of a frills-and-lace image. Each year, at lavish seminars, the top producers among the firm's virtually all-female sales force are awarded pink Cadillacs, diamonds and mink coats...