Word: descending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also means that thousands of alumni descend upon Cambridge ready and willing to trade their green for anything crimson...
...alumni of a bygone era descend on their alma mater this week, their offspring will spend five days frolicking at Camp Harvard...
...reactor in concrete for hundreds of years to allow the radioactive substances to decay. The scheme will require workers to pump an insulating layer of liquid-nitrogen refrigerant into a tunnel just beneath the reactor. The crippled unit will then be encased within a concrete barrier that will descend 96 ft. into the ground. Engineers were also spreading a plastic film over some 300,000 sq. yds. of soil a day to prevent further contamination and hold tainted earth in place...
...than deficit reduction but who now promises to push through the measure on the Senate floor next month; and Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat who for five years has been building the case for reform. Lobbyists representing interests ranging from real estate syndicators to restaurant owners vowed to descend on Capitol Hill to do battle. Acknowledging that brutal struggles lie ahead, Bradley, a former New York Knicks basketball star, warned, "Unlike many games I have played in, there are five periods. We've only finished the third." But even former skeptics were saying that reform now has the momentum...
...contest could be messy, as bystanders found out while watching a plastic egg filled with chocolate pudding descend. The container shattered on impact, splattering spectators with pudding...