Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ruthless Harvard offensive onslaught continued throughout all 60 minutes of play. Eight different Crimson players scored and in a combined effort, the sophomore tandem of Milbert and Gerometta accounted for a total of four goals and eight assists...
Less than three minutes later, the troublesome tandem would strike again. This time St. Louis passed the puck to Vermont defenseman Jonathan Sorg at the right point. Sorg launched a rocket of a shot which Perrin tipped into the upper right hand corner of the goal...
...there's a volatile, tender symbiosis in the tandem of Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...
...stated that candidates ran individually and that no tickets were recognized in the voting. By making the issue of publicizing the unofficial nature of the tickets a prime concern, the commission opened the election as an arena where every individual had to prove him or herself, not just in tandem with another candidate. The dogged insistence of the commission convinced voters not to vote straight tickets and thereby set an excellent example for how future council elections can be about issues rather than alliances...
...Security and federal-worker pensions, veterans' benefits, food stamps, subsidized school lunches--that by law are tied to the CPI. Perhaps 3 million workers have union contracts linking future wage increases partly to the index. Taxpayers' personal exemptions, standard deductions and tax-rate brackets are adjusted each year in tandem with the CPI, and the cumulative effect of changing those adjustments could be huge. The extra $37 paid by a median family the first year would grow to $1,755 over 10 years...