Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell takes a 3-0 lead, but Yale racks up 17 straight points to put the game away...
...Walsh said yesterday he is not really surprised that the pro-tenant forces were able to wrest control away the Independents...
...Faculty Council--the 20-member FAS steering committee that weeds out proposal for consideration by the full Faculty--utterly undermined the Verba Report when it did away with that intradepartmental mechanism...
Talk about timing. With presidential elections just two weeks away, Silvio Santos, 58, one of Brazil's most popular television variety-show hosts, last week proclaimed himself a candidate. The startling announcement might have seemed laughable -- were Santos' challenge not so serious to the three leading contenders. If none of the candidates gets an absolute majority, the two leading candidates go forward from the first round of balloting on Nov. 15 to the runoff vote on Dec. 17. Within two days of Santos' announcement, newspaper polls showed the upstart candidate alternately in first and second place -- meaning...
Elections for an independent Namibia were less than a week away when South Africa, which has controlled the country for 74 years, called foul. Pretoria dramatically claimed that hundreds of Marxist SWAPO guerrillas were infiltrating illegally into the country, posing a serious threat to a free and fair vote. Claiming to have "monitored" internal messages from a United Nations group supervising the election, South Africa suggested that the unit was reluctant to act against SWAPO. Vowing to "take whatever steps would be required," South Africa put its own troops on alert...