Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson clinched an NCAA bid with its victory over host Yale in the semifinals. Although the final score was tied, 8-8, Harvard won the first tiebreaker by registering two more touches than Yale...
...Shinto priests, accompanied by veiled artifacts too sacred to be seen, marched in solemn cadence. As 10,000 invited guests looked on, Emperor Akihito bowed. Facing the coffin of the man who was once revered by his people as a living divinity, Akihito intoned, "Filled with profound grief, we bid you farewell...
Since Princeton's 1984 appearance, the Ivy representative in the tournament has dropped four games by an average of 33 points. Such results have spurred debate about the possibility of the Ivy League losing its automatic bid to tournament...
Following the interview, Tower was asked whether it would be all right for reporters to follow him, as they did former presidential candidate Gary Hart, whose bid for the presidency was derailed by his liaison with a part-time model...
Spring 1984: Rolf Kiefer, owner of a small metal-construction firm in Wiesbaden, West Germany, receives a request to bid on the construction of a technology park in North Africa. The man soliciting the bids calls it a "big contract." Kiefer is intrigued, but as he says later, "when someone comes in with a suitcase full of money, you feel wary." When Kiefer learns that the "park" is to be built in Libya, he bows out. "I assumed from the outset that the man was talking about a weapons factory," recalls Kiefer, "and we didn't want to get involved...