Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year's, contest, Harvard similarly found itself down late in the game, and then mounted a ferocious comeback--only this time it lost...
...final moments of The Game last fall, Harvard's annual battle with Yale. After being down by 16, Giardi had led a furious Crimson comeback which had brought the team to within two, 33-31, but that seemed to be about as far as the team would...
Throughout Europe, the past is staging a comeback, and its presence is not comforting. Last week in Rome, its shadows intruded again. A band of what Italians call "Nazi-skins" invaded Casa del popolo, a social center for immigrants. Shouting "Bastards, we're going to kill you," they threatened to throw Molotov cocktails into the building on the Via di Valle Aurelia. A 17- year-old immigrant suffered serious head injuries after being bludgeoned with an iron...
...stand up? In recent weeks the struggling computer giant has stunned Wall Street with surprisingly strong first-quarter profits and has watched its stock price soar. Along with those gains, Big Blue has rolled out lines of powerful business computers that the company hopes will help to spearhead its comeback over the long haul; the versatile large and midsize machines can handle anything from banking transactions to running factory floors. "I think the worst is behind IBM," says Richard Zwetchkenbaum, who watches the firm for International Data Corp. John Coyle, a computer analyst for Standard & Poor's, concurs: "This...
Sophomore Shayne Mauricette (10.79 and 21.94) got things going early with two third-place finishes in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, sophomore Ben Bowen (1:52.02) made a gutsy comeback and took second place in the 800, sophomore Darin Shearer (8:57.96) placed third in the 3000-meter steeplechase and freshman Ian Carswell (14:28.69) rode into second place in the 5,000-meter...