Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard goalie Wade Lau, perhaps rusty from a three-week layoff for exams, was beaten by a Rob Zamejc slapshot only 12 seconds into the game, and then watched three more Black Bear shots hit the back of his net before the period ended...
...loss was a bitter one for the Crimson. The Princeton team was tired after coming off a defeat at the hands of Yale the day before. As Merner said, "We should have beaten them. We were sloppy at key times and failed to take advantage of our opportunities...
...team might have beaten Trinity by more than the 9-7 score it collected Friday, but the electrical equipment used for scoring touches wasn't working, and Coach Sheldon Berman didn't play his first and second fencers in anticipation of Saturday's six-hour ordeal. "We won but it wasn't much of a victory," Berman said yesterday. "It was ludicrous...
...methods of political control climaxed in the death of his son. Just before midnight on March 29, 1976, Joelito disappeared from his house in Asuncion, Paraguay. Two uniformed officers awoke his sister four hours later and brought her to the neighbor's home, where she discovered her brother, a beaten, slashed and electroshocked corpse. A police inspector told her it was a crime of passion; her brother had been found in bed by the neighbor's husband with his wife...
Repressive political regimes do not normally dictate laissez-faire economic systems, but that is what is happening in Chile. The result is that inflation, which was as high as 1,000% in 1973, has been beaten back to about 38%. Real growth spurted 7.3% in 1978 and rose another 7.5% or so last year. Per capita income is up to $1,500; in real terms, the people are at least back around the income levels of 1970. That was when Allende was elected and began to crank up the printing presses to cover spiraling government deficits that led to economic...