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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play in the sixth spot was perhaps the most exciting of the afternoon. The Crimson's Kathy Mulvehal beat Sophia Ray in a rather routine first set, 6-3. The second set was a battle to the bitter end, with Ray copping a 7-6 decision. In the third set, Mulvehal came back to ice the win and a shut out for the net-women...

Author: By Barbara VAN Gorder, | Title: Netwomen Throttle Pennsylvania, 9-0 | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

DETROIT--Kirk Gibson needed only one game to convince 51,437 opening-day fans in Tiger Stadium that he's worth every penny of the $4.1 million he wrested from Detroit in a bitter contract hassle over the winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gibson Leads Tigers Past Slugging BoSox | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard women's tennis team (5-5) travelled cross-town Saturday and defeated the Boston College Eagles, 5-1, in the bitter cold of the William Flynn Complex tennis courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Tip B.C. | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...with more performances like yesterday's, this season may leave 1985 as only a bitter memory...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Laxmen Crush Springfield, 13-5, for Fourth in Row | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

...many advocacy groups last week as an important step in preserving the right to die with dignity. After "a period when technology was used indiscriminately, this returns us to common-sense medicine," declared A.J. Levinson, executive director of Concern for Dying in New York City. But there were bitter objections as well. "Deciding to begin selective starvation is a decision no civilization should make," said Philosophy Professor Patrick Derr of Clark University in Worcester, Mass. And dehydration, critics noted, can be a gruesome way to die (though just how much a comatose patient feels is not known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Feed Or Not to Feed? | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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