Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After capturing the NCAA title one year earlier in Princeton, N.J., the Harvard women's lacrosse team entered Durham, N.H. in the first round of the tournament hoping to walk the championship trail one more time...
With one blow, the fortunes of 844 million people became hostage to a terrible uncertainty. On the comeback trail for months, the former Prime Minister had gone a long way toward regaining public faith in his ability to rescue India from a deepening hole of debt, drift and alienation. His death sickened the country with shame and impotent rage. It was horrifying enough that a bomb could have ripped apart the latest and perhaps last standard bearer of the Nehru-Gandhi line. But India, like most mourners, basically wept for itself. Said Natwar Singh, a former deputy in Gandhi...
Saddam has already embarked on the campaign trail. Earlier this month, he visited three provincial capitals, Ba'quba, Ramadi and Mosul, as well as his hometown of Tikrit. At each stop, thousands of followers, mostly young people, cheered him, chanting, "Bush, Bush, listen well, we all love Saddam Hussein!" In Mosul the Iraqi President ostentatiously drew a pistol from his holster and fired several shots over the heads of the crowd. The throng went wild, and the footage was shown over and over on Iraqi television. "Tomorrow, if they were given new instructions, they would chant different slogans," says...
...hunt created a trail that linked such unlikely landmarks as a mansion in Beverly Hills, the shadowy Bank of Credit & Commerce International -- a notorious offshore enterprise that has been convicted of money laundering -- and Paris-based Hachette, one of the world's largest communications companies. Perhaps most disturbing, the signs pointed to evidence that Saddam had used his secret financial network to acquire advanced technology to upgrade Iraq's nuclear- and chemical-weapons programs and buttress its war machine...
...subsidiary known to only a handful of B.C.C.I. officials. Depositors who thought they were placing money -- apparently hundreds of millions -- into B.C.C.I.'s Cayman bank didn't realize that it was being whisked into the I.C.I.C. bank to disguise its true origins and eventual destinations. From there the money trail evaporated in a series of loans and undocumented transfers...