Word: tarred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last Friday, in the first round of the Big Dance, Harvard dug deep into its bag of surprises and found that it had just ran out. And the Crimson lost to the Tar Heels of North Carolina, 5-3, at Henry Field Stadium in Athens...
Coach David Fish said his team has an "outside chance" to defeat the Tar Heels...
...audience. Table after table in the cafeteria burned, and rows of children's wooden bunk beds upstairs, as the flames spread faster, through the attic that ( ran the length of the building like a wind tunnel. It burned fast because it was built on the cheap, a tar-paper, yellow-pine and plasterboard crematorium...
...charged into the Spanish market with interest-bearing accounts, forcing local banks to follow suit. The single market influences food prices (bananas in Germany will be one-third more expensive thanks to new E.C.-imposed tariffs on South American imports), health (no cigarettes with more than 15 mg of tar can be sold in the Community, forcing France to lighten up its legendary Gauloises), and even noise (all lawn mowers must adhere to the same decibel regulations...
...lucky break in the kind of oil carried by the Braer: a light variety called Gullfaks, which, unlike other crudes, resists taking up water and forming a stable emulsion. The viscosity of most crudes causes them to form hard, tight masses that are difficult to break up. The tar balls and gooey globs that plagued Alaska have not appeared in the Shetlands because of the peculiar nature of Gullfaks. Says Dan Lawn, an environmental engineer who works in Prince William Sound: "When I flew over the site in the Shetlands, I was astounded to see that...