Word: crested
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Riding the crest of the first Hockey East championship, and a berth in the 1985 NCAA final four, B.C. has continued on its winning path right on into the 1985-86 season...
Last year, when a wave of anti-apartheid activism was at its crest, the Conservative Club invited South African diplomat Abe S. Hoppenstein to a private reception. The Lowell House event precipitated a major demonstration that last week resulted in disciplinary action against 10 students...
Even though there is comic potential in the relationship between Maxie and Nick, their dialogue is so badly written that the humor level never exceeds that of an ambitious Crest commercial. Nick's reaction to his wife's possession is interesting at first, but once he stops being Maxie's victim and becomes her mentor, delivering lines like "Maxie, you know that people get old when they don't die young," it all goes down the toilet...
...year after its debut on NBC, Miami Vice, TV's hottest and hippest new cop show, is reaching a high sizzle. Scheduled on Friday nights opposite CBS's popular Falcon Crest, the show languished in the bottom half of the Nielsens for its first few months on the air. But viewers gradually began to take notice of its high-gloss visual style and MTV-inspired use of rock music, its gritty South Florida ambience and the cool charisma of Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, who star as Miami Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Since...
Immigration will keep the U.S. from shrinking. Without transplants, the population would crest at about 245 million in the year 2000 and then start declining. If the projected rates of immigration and fertility are realized, 100 years from now America will have a population of about 300 million, of whom 16% will be black, 16% Hispanic, 10% Asian and a diminishing majority of 58% non-Hispanic whites...