Word: upset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After being denied post-season play for four consecutive seasons, the Big Green (10-17-2, 6-14-2, 11th) is looking for an upset. And after three long rebuilding years, it may be Dartmouth's time to break out of the cellar...
...team's success against its higher ranked opponents has the players believing that it can pull off yet another upset...
...nods to the reality that Kahn's initial disbelief wasn't realistic. The most implausible result would have been a Brooklyn upset...
Allies were similarly upset. Britain's government was "deeply disappointed"; the Japanese Foreign Minister "extremely concerned." To be sure, there was some justification for the anxiety. It's difficult to dissuade India and Pakistan from testing nukes in each other's backyards if the U.S. won't promise to end testing. "There is a collective sigh of relief in Indian government circles," says Bharat Karnad of the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. "Jesse Helms [who, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led the opposition] has taken India off the hook...
Even in Western capitals, the usual jitters were tempered by widespread relief that Sharif was gone. Although U.S. Ambassador William Milam met with Musharraf to inform him of Washington's "profound regret about the military takeover," the U.S. was not all that upset by last week's events. The Asian subcontinent has been a source of heightened anxiety for the U.S. since the spring of 1998, when India tested nuclear devices and Pakistan responded with its own nuclear tests. The two countries' dispute over the territory of Kashmir brought them to the brink of all-out war this year...