Word: atop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third team sitting atop the ECAC, Yale, was one of six conference schools that enjoyed a bye this weekend. Victorious in its last three decisions, the Bulldogs (6-4-2, 4-2-2) do not lace up the skates again until its tangle with the Crimson...
...Rensselaer (11-3-0, 4-2-0) was one of the six teams with the weekend off. Currently tied for sixth place in the conference, it possesses perhaps the most explosive offense in the league led by forward Brad Tapper, who stands atop the offensive leaderboard with 23 points...
...cavernous Pantheon. Which would be fine, had the Romans built with concrete, but they knew better. Washington's Metro is the Mather House of subways--simultaneously large, impressive, cold and ugly. All the same, it has redeeming features--like the Sonny Rollins look- and sound-alike who plays atop Farragut North or the longest escalator outside of Russia at Wheaton. But these amenities do little to compensate for its reigning hobgoblin, a gray-grim consistency...
...selling a design for an electronic translator to Sharp Corp. He was so absorbed in the process that he forgot to wheel his Porsche over to Berkeley city hall for his own wedding. He founded Softbank Corp. in Tokyo in 1981. Legend has it that after he stood atop a crate and ranted about the company's future domination of the PC industry, his first two employees quit on the spot. Despite that vote of no confidence, Softbank went on to become Japan's leading software distributor...
...Cahokia, Ill., is suspended for having a nail clipper at school. A 10th-grader at Surry County High School in Virginia is booted for having blue-dyed hair. A Minnesota high school nixes a yearbook photo of an Army enlistee in the senior class because it shows her sitting atop a cannon outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post...