Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Freshman defender Sean McCann officially launched the Harvard offensive, tying the game 25 seconds into the final period. McCann intercepted an errant Army clearing pass at the blue line and whistled a low slapshot past Cadets goalie Brooks Chretien...
Harry Weinberg was a pugnacious businessman who probably had his share of enemies when he was alive. But the real estate baron made a final gesture that will win him friends for years to come. Weinberg, who died last week at 82, willed nearly $1 billion to a family trust to help the poor. The sum represents his entire estate, except for $3 million he left his grandchildren. The trust will distribute up to $45 million a year to the needy as Weinberg dictated: one-quarter to Jewish charities, one-quarter to non-Jewish groups and the rest to organizations...
...York. A barrage of bad news about the state budget gaps delivered the final blow to an environmental bond issue of nearly $2 billion. That was an embarrassment for Governor Mario Cuomo, who made support of the project a centerpiece of his own successful re-election campaign. Now money for recycling, land preservation and other programs the bond would have financed will have to come from a reluctant state legislature or higher local taxes...
...does when puttied on more lissome leading men. Depardieu's Cyrano has a slowness and stubbornness that make one realize how willed his dashing public personality is, how much it is a way of deflecting attention from a self he finds shameful. This imparts a particular poignancy to the final sequence, in which he at last unmasks his yearning soul to Roxane and confronts death not with swirling cape and whirling sword but with a sweet and welcoming comic gravity...
...campaign seemed to lack the hard edge of his previous crusades. His early TV spots attacking Gantt as too liberal on issues such as abortion and gay rights fired up rural "Jessecrats" but not moderates and fence-sitters. Gantt raised enough money to match Helms' TV blitz in the final weeks and to gain an eight-point lead in mid-October polls...