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...Judges (now 2-4) were not able to string together consecutive baskets until Rob Toomey (nine points) and Derek Oliver (15 points, six rebounds) converted back-to-back hoops with just over five minutes remaining in the first half...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Streaking Cagers Bludgeon Judges, 79-63; Nail Down Second Straight Home Victory | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

...delicious week for Monsanto's NutraSweet unit, makers of the popular brand of low-calorie aspartame, a sugar substitute. In back-to-back decisions, the Food and Drug Administration waved aside petitions challenging the artificial sweetener's safety and approved its use in a broad range of juice drinks, frozen desserts, canned and instant teas and breath mints. NutraSweet can currently be found in more than 130 different products, from Jell-O to diet Coke, but the lucrative new markets represent a major expansion of FDA approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regulation: Sweets to the Sweetener | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...matters stand now, though, either Harvard or Yale will be pawing the turf at B.U. in NCAA action the day after The Game. To avoid back-to-back games, the squads have rescheduled their November 22 contest for November 19 at Ohiri...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Men Booters Gain NCAA Bid | 11/12/1986 | See Source »

...back-to-back practices have the potential to cause problems, but Scalise makes sure not to mix the two sports. "They are two totally different teams," he says...

Author: By Vadim Nikitine, | Title: A Full-Time Winner | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

Following its opening day, training camp-like exercise against the forever-hapless Lions and back-to-back blankings at the hands of two nationally ranked, non-league superiors, the Harvard football team gets its first meaningful challenge of the 1986 campaign today...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Up Against Big Red Machine | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

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