Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell's All-America linebacker, Mitch Lee, plays like Dick Butkus. Big Red running back John McNiff (130 yards, two touchdowns) thinks he's Walter Payton. The Crimson just think of going back home...
...game's highlight is a four-play, goal-line stand by the Crimson that thwarts a Big Green touchdown threat...
...most dramatic improvements have been made by U.S. automakers, who developed an infamous reputation for poor craftsmanship in the 1970s and early 1980s. Yet for every gain the Big Three have made, their Japanese competitors have continued to earn top ratings for quality and to expand market share. In a survey by J.D. Power Associates, a leading automotive analyst, buyers of this year's Japanese imports reported only 119 problems per 100 cars during the first 90 days, while owners of new American cars reported 163 glitches. Even so, the quality competition has drastically boosted value for the car buyer...
Allegations of a continuing Chernobyl cover-up have been quietly circulating in the Soviet Union for some time. But the scandal has now broken into the open, thanks to an article in the Moscow News, an outspoken (since glasnost) weekly newspaper. Under the headline THE BIG LIE, the paper reported on a round-table discussion it had organized on the Chernobyl issue. The party officials, journalists and lawmakers who took part recited a litany of accusations against such prominent citizens as former Ukrainian party boss Vladimir Shcherbitsky; Yevgeni Chazov, the Soviet Minister of Health; Anatoli Aleksandrov, former head...
RELIGION: Big church battles over gay clergy...