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...Stewart allowed the Quakers seven hits in collecting a complete game win. Anointed this year's stopper, the senior remained in control throughout, yielding the three runs on a solo home run in the third and a walk, two sacrifices and back-to-back singles in the fifth...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Roasts Quakers | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...save the tie for Clarkson, but even a draw up there demands a near-flawless performance. Back-to-back big games a nine-hour bus ride away from home isn't the best way to close out the season, but that's probably how Year 1 of the New Era will end. Not, as the wildly optimistic had predicted, in the Boston Garden...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Standings on Thin Ice | 2/26/1980 | See Source »

Inflation. Despite weak growth, price pain will abate only slowly, if at all. Through the year, the rate is forecast to drop from today's 13.3% to 10.4%. Even if that happens, the 1979-80 period will go into the record books as the first peacetime case of back-to-back years with double-digit inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prudent and Responsible? | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

With a 15-1 lead to work with, the Crimson never had to look back. After Frick's victory in the 200 IM increased the team's lead to 21-4, however, back-to-back Huskie wins in the 100-yd. freestyle and 50-yd. backstroke shrank the lead...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Aquawomen Swim by Huskies; Frick Paces Easy 83-57 Win | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

...Naismith, who invented the game, never contemplated. Like slam it through the basket from all sorts of odd angles, with such style that by the time he was a high school junior, sportswriters were already calling him "Dr. Dunk." Led by Dominique, the Washington High School Pam Pack won back-to-back state Triple-A league championships and built up a 56-game winning streak, then the longest in the nation. In his senior year, Dominique averaged nearly 30 points and 16 rebounds a game. He was named to Parade 's high school All-America team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: The Strange Case of Dr. Dunk | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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