Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haven last weekend need not be bitter. For the world knows that the catch was never complete, the victory illegitimate, the title--Yale's first since 1989--marred by an eternal asterisk in the pages of collegiate history. The 116th Game will not be remembered as Yale's crowning triumph, but--thanks to photographic evidence and video replays on ESPN SportsCenter--as a show of ill-deserved serendipity...
Even if the Democrats do sign on to the GOP cuts, sending everyone home for the holidays, this small triumph may not do much to ease the minds of Republicans, who are suddenly worried they've given too much ground. Indeed, despite Wednesday's White House concession, there is a hint of last-minute sellers' remorse hovering in the Washington air. And while it's been a relatively bile-free bargaining process, the annual money talks were hardly a love-fest: Since October 1, the official beginning of fiscal year 2000, Congress has approved six short-term spending bills - quick...
...American countries at an Ibero-American summit on the once-isolated island. But many of his guests pointedly chastised the Cuban leader over human rights, and held meetings with the dissidents Castro had tried to keep under the carpet. In spite of that, the summit was clearly a diplomatic triumph for the aging Cuban strongman, because it represented an explicit repudiation of the embargo maintained by eight successive U.S. presidents. The summit's draft declaration in fact contains a strong critique of the Helms-Burton law by which the U.S. seeks to force other countries to uphold its embargo...
...begin earning a profit. You respond by: A) Providing a concise cost-revenue analysis that avoids giving a specific answer; B) Pretending to choke on a piece of chicken bone; C) Pointing out that the profit motive is an ephemeral capitalist notion that will eventually give way to the triumph of modern socialism; D) Changing the subject to the number of clients that will be redirected to your Web page from porn sites...
Niles Eldredge is a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History. His book The Triumph of Evolution is due out early next year