Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looked up and fed teammate Robin Carruthers,who was wide-open in the slot. Carruthers sent thepuck through the fivehole to make it 2-0 onlythree seconds after the power play had expired...
...candidates call for taking the council out of the driver's seat in planning campus-wide events...
...turned off by the council elections? One would think that it would be a source of great interest to students. Even if the council itself is not well-regarded, one would think this election--simply because it is the only opportunity for a campus-wide popularity contest--might carry some weight. But remarkably, it doesn't. Despite the lofty title bestowed upon the winning candidates, the victors are belittled by our indifference...
...coolness toward the Undergraduate Council candidates and other potential campus superstars, then, may stem more from confusion than pettiness. Rather than trying to sort out a campus-wide pecking order, we have chosen a bland but egalitarian alternative: A thousand flowers may bloom, but they shouldn't expect any special treatment because of it. The council elections, important though they may be, try to get us to deviate from this egalitarian solution. It is not surprising then that they should be met with an indifference often laced with hostility...
...exchange for $4.2 billion (roughly 10%) worth of its high-flying (if arguably inflated) stock, AOL gets all of Netscape, right down to the last cappuccino machine. These are indeed dark days for the Mountain View, Calif., start-up. The company whose trailblazing browser jump-started the World Wide Web back in 1994 was supposed to become the fastest hot rod on the Infobahn. Instead, Bill Gates sideswiped it into a ditch and left AOL to strip the wreck for parts: a browser, a website and a treasure chest of software. How well AOL exploits its new toys will determine...