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...have dreams and you make plans," Lockbaum said, "and sometimes they don't work out how you want them to. You just have to adapt and that's the same way with a ball game. We wanted to be up 30 or 40 by halftime, but we weren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crossed Up | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

Berner quickly dismisses speculation that a change in the oxygen supply had anything to do with the extinction of dinosaurs. "It was a very slow change, over millions of years," he observes. "And most organisms easily adapt." Next comes testing bubbles in 300 million-year-old amber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Putting On Ancient Airs | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Brown was solid, but Harvard was spectacular,looking more like an NCAA Final Four contingentthan any other time this season. Play revolvedaround the Crimson's run-and-gun style, with theBruins forced to adapt to Harvard's tendency toplay lots of balls into...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Booters Befuddle Bruins | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...injuries and inconsistency haven't stopped the Crimson. An 8-0-2 overall record, the top spot in the Ivy League (3-0), and a fifth-place national ranking attest to Harvard's ability to adapt to all situations. The Crimson is the only team in the national top 10 sporting an undefeated mark...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Tape and Ice | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

...rumble in software. Lotus and Microsoft, the top independent U.S. producers of personal-computer programs, each announced plans to invade the other's turf. The battleground: the $400 million market for spreadsheets, or electronic business ledgers. Microsoft, which sells Excel software for Apple Computer's Macintosh models, plans to adapt its program for IBM- compatible computers. Lotus, which designed the best-selling 1-2-3 program for IBM machines, promises to bring out a version of that software for the Mac. Microsoft -- led by Bill Gates, its boyish-looking billionaire chairman -- may have an edge. The IBM version of Excel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOFTWARE: Is Excel as Easy as 1-2-3? | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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