Word: withstands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson faced the Bears earlier this year on Nov. 29 in Providence. Harvard won, 5-3, in a game in which the Crimson jumped out to a 3-0 lead. However, the Bears pulled within one goal at 3-2 and again at 4-3. Harvard had to withstand a furious late-game rush before adding an empty net goal to secure the victory...
...Crimson, proving that it can withstand a late-game rush, even if it is Brown, held on and even added an empty netter with 42 seconds remaining in the game...
...sizable first printing of 350,000 copies. Hersh is bracing for the backlash from Kennedy loyalists--and not just from them. "I've had people I've known for 30 years be cold and angry," he says. "It's going to be very tough." If Dark Side can withstand close scrutiny, its portrait of J.F.K. as a mendacious, Mobbed-up sex addict will be the crown jewel of Kennedy pathographies--the unmaking of the President...
...have been cruising along under the fuzzy notion that the '90s are different, that an economy with seemingly rock-solid fundamentals could withstand the buffeting of currency crises in countries half a world away. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who likes this kind of excitement about as much as he does a rash, carefully reinforced his long-held belief that the Nirvana-like state of low unemployment and steady growth that correlates with his tenure can be sustained by riding herd on inflation. Said he: "Our economy has enjoyed a lengthy period of good economic growth, linked, not coincidentally...
...climate of total vengefulness? When does reason fail to account for our experience? Is the rejection of reason ultimately worth the danger it invites? Why does religious ecstasy give way to violence? And what does this say about our gods' anthropomorphism? Does the beauty of divine ritual withstand the "rage for meaning...