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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intercollegiate volleyball, fifth sets are played in a rally format. This means that there are no side outs--on every volley a point is awarded...

Author: By Yair J. Listokin, | Title: W. Volleyball Crumbles, 3-2 | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

...farewell was to Stefan Edberg, a past champion playing his last Grand Slam tournament. Edberg honored the game of tennis not only with the most graceful serve and volley tennis of the past decade but with his personality...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: In Case You Missed It | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

Serving at 6-7 down--a match point against him--Sampras serve-and-volleyed, a surprising strategy for someone barely mobile. When Pete stretched impossibly far to volley a cross-court passing shot from Corretja for a winner, the place erupted...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: In Case You Missed It | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...some likely Cabinet choices would be selected, a shadow government to telegraph what an Administration of adults--as opposed to baby boomers--would look like. But Dole, broke and exhausted, had the stomach for none of it. And so he watched from the sidelines with scarcely an answering volley as the Clinton machine--flush with funds because no other Democrat had risen to challenge the President in the primaries--filled the airwaves with a massive ad strategy that would define the coming general-election campaign: Let Dole have the White House, the Democrats argued, and Newt will be running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW HE GOT THERE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...small island that is just within sight of an oil-tank farm and is located near a busy shipping channel and a sewage-treatment plant? Perhaps it's to bask on a beach of imported white Bahamian sand, flex pecs in the 22,000-sq.-ft. spa, volley at any of the 18 tennis courts or choose from more than 11 brands of bottled water at the local market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 26, 1996 | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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