Word: topness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard offense managed to hit only 7-of-28 shots in the second half. Usually one of the top three-point shooting teams in the country, the Crimson was generally unable to hit the outside shots. Also, the Crimson couldn't hit the easy inside shots when it got the chance...
Even the growing pile of potential lawsuits is not what it appears. The families insist they are less interested in blame or recompense, than simply answers. A few do need money because of mounting medical bills. Expenses for Richard Castaldo, who is paralyzed from the waist down, could top $1 million. Mark Taylor, who has had four operations and faces a long, painful road to recovery, needed an $1,800 therapeutic mattress, but his HMO refused to pay for it, and the family had to find other means. "If the insurance companies aren't doing their job," asks Donna Taylor...
...Russian state television has been accusing Luzhkov of a lurid array of crimes--from involvement in the murder of an American businessman to a connection with a Japanese cult, and, of course, massive venality. His chief of police has been fired, and reports are circulating that some of his top deputies will soon be indicted for corruption...
...device was hidden inside a length of chair-rail molding ingeniously milled and painted to blend into the aging woodwork of a conference room used by the oceans and environment bureau. "This is really a sort of James Bond scenario," marvels a top official. "This is not something you go in and slap under the table and walk out the door. It's extremely professional in nature and sufficiently concealed so that you or I wouldn't find it in a hundred years...
...size debugging device. An inch-by-inch search of the first through sixth floors yielded nothing. Then a few weeks ago, investigators found a tiny microphone-transmitter on the seventh floor, a short walk from "Mahogany Row," the ornate suite occupied by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her top advisers...