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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost at the net," Co-Captain Maia Forman said. "They were bigger and stronger at the net. We had a hard time adjusting to the different line-up without Suzie playing...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Six Singing Spikers Swamped | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

...much for the agony of defeat "We lost at the net," Co-Captain Maia Forman said. "They were bigger and stronger at the net. We had a hard time adjusting to the different line-up without Suzie playing...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Six Singing Spikers Swamped | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

...have picked up more than two dozen of the region's 300 wineries, among them the Almaden label (now British) and the St. Clement Vineyard (Japanese). In Alaska, Japanese investors control more than one-third of the state's $680 million seafood-packing industry. U.S. farmland might be a bigger target for raiders, except that more than two dozen states have imposed controls or bans on foreign ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Sale: America | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

Bieber may have little trouble getting Ford and its 104,000 U.A.W. employees to reach an accord. The company passed much bigger rival GM in profits last year ($3.3 billion vs. $2.9 billion) largely on the basis of cutbacks begun in 1980 that cost some 50,000 workers their jobs. With that painful exercise over, Ford's profits are expected to be just as good or better this year. Meantime, the company's domestic-market share climbed from 18.2% last year to 20.1% in July, and some Ford plants are humming along at more than 100% of normal capacity. Facing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rough Bargaining Ahead | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...real thing. He won the first of his two Pulitzer prizes in 1945 after publishing plans for the United Nations drawn up by each of the five powers that would become permanent members of the Security Council. He got all the papers at once but created a bigger sensation by doling out his scoops for days, one at a time. The FBI was put on his trail; an enraged Secretary of State called up Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, demanding to know whether he had leaked. Halifax denied it, then barred Reston from the embassy. Actually, Reston's source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch: The Best Journalist of His Time | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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