Word: vies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Journalists' shameful secret is that we love being spun. The networks vie for the privilege of having the next round of lies uttered on their particular Sunday talk show. It's called "advancing the story." Correspondents, only human, are flattered to be leaked upon by important people. Spinning gives journalists something to interpret. If politicos ever started saying it straight, reporters would have nothing to be knowing about...
...against Dartmouth in Hanover would havehanded the Big Green its first Ivy loss of theseason, and it would have also given the Crimson achance to vie for the league title against Brownin the final Ivy game of the year...
...athletic contests go, only the Harvard-Yale Game comes close to creating the bond between such a diverse student body as the women's basketball team's accomplishment did. But not since the early part of the 20th century when the gridders could still vie for a national title has The Game approached the significance of The Upset...
...past two seasons, Harvard returned to the postseason in 1998 and came within seven minutes of upsetting the eventual national champion New Hampshire Wildcats. In this, the first year in which the NCAA crowned a women's ice hockey national champion, Harvard gave a strong indication that it could vie for the crown before the end of the second millennium...
...candidates have declared their intent to vie for the state legislature seat representing the 28th district by obtaining the necessary preliminary papers, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office...