Word: contests
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...conservative opponents have taken every opportunity to criticize his performance in office--most notably when they stopped a meeting for over half an hour to contest Burton's expulsion of a member for poor attendance...
...Though Brown and Harvard featured the top two offenses in the Ivy League entering the game, it was the defenses that controlled the contest. Despite turning the ball over four times in the first half, Harvard still led 10-3 early in the third quarter. But then Brown quarterback James Perry finally figured out the Harvard defense, completing 7-of-9 passes on a game-tying touchdown drive...
...Rhodes program ignore the nominations. 7 - War breaks out in the Middle East as tank battles raged along the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights. Israeli jets bombed the Syrian capital of Damascus and struck Cairo as well. 10 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns, pleading no contest to income tax evasion. Three days later, Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald Ford to replace Agnew. 10 - Nissan Motor Company of Japan donates $1 million for the construction of a new building near the Yenching Library and the expansion of Japanese studies. 17 - The Nobel committee announces that the 1973 peace...
...point in the race, Harvard held a lead of almost a length. But a pack of challengers, led by Yale, surged ahead in the last stages of the contest...
...that record lasted only as long as it took McAuliffe to announce his numbers to a standing ovation Wednesday night. He topped the G.O.P. by 25% and in one evening brought in a total that almost matched all the soft money raised by the party in the 1992 presidential contest. "I want to thank the greatest fund raiser in the history of the universe," said Vice President Al Gore, who hopes to boost his presidential race with TV ads paid for by the proceeds...