Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard began its action against Cal-Berkeley--ranked number-one in the country--at the Bears home pool. California waterpolo experts must have been setting the point spread at between 20 and 30 points...
...retirees and career switchers from other professions -- some 2,500 in all during the 1987-88 school year. These recruits have helped reduce teacher shortages and have reinvigorated the classroom. Last spring Bush proposed $25 million in grants to encourage other states to follow suit; the measure awaits congressional action...
...foreign investors rushing to claim a stake in Hollywood. In the past year, Britain's Television South bought MTM Enterprises, Australia's Qintex Group reached an agreement to take over MGM/ UA, and Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti acquired control of Hollywood's struggling Cannon Group, an action-picture mill...
...other projects. Sony's first creative challenge may be negotiating a deal under which rival Warner gets its hits and Guber and Peters are given a shot at jump-starting Columbia. Now that Sony has paid the price of admission, the company seems eager to see lights, camera and action...
...class, especially outside the U.S., command far more coverage than less glamorous causes of violent death. On the same day that the New York Times was giving front-page play to both air accidents last month, it carried three paragraphs at the bottom of an inside page about rebel action in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed twelve people and wounded 17. Also in the crash aftermath, an alleged coup attempt in Burkina Faso that led to the execution of the second and third highest officers of government rated two paragraphs. Murders of Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia were cited in part...