Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the government's Chancellor of the Exchequer tries to sweeten his economic plan for the coming year with at least a spoonful of sugar. But last week, when Chancellor Nigel Lawson arrived at the House of Commons with his 25-page budget, he brought along an entire sugar bowl. In a somber, 59-minute speech, Lawson cut taxes, pared government borrowing and placed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in an excellent position to call national elections as early as June...
...areas of the country possess major league baseball or professional football, but it is only a slight exaggeration to say every state has a contender for this super bowl. In the past two weeks, network and cable- television stations have fairly throbbed with elimination games, often featuring heroic and nameless underdogs with authentic chances. Within 90 minutes of Southwest Missouri State's invitation, a spontaneous pep rally of 3,000 fans lighted up Springfield on a Sunday night. The Bears upset Clemson and almost Kansas...
...Harvard has yet to show it can turn the corners on a soft ice surface. The Crimson fell to Yale, 4-2, in Ingalls Rink, the much bowl of the East, in December...
...Only on Friday nights. The rest of the time you have to take a shuttle bus to nearby Huron. Even there, though, you can only bowl duckpins. Bowlers are encouraged to spend their four-year undergraduate careers elsewhere. However, full-time bowling privileges are extended to graduate students with a 3.0 average or above...
...groups have been content to live with in the American salad bowl. In Cities on a Hill, FitzGerald--who is running this spring for a position on Harvard's Board of Overseers on a University-nominated slate of candidates--takes the reader through four alternative communities that popped up in America during the past two decades: the Castro, San Fransisco's gay neighborhood; Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church; the Rajneeshee community in Oregon; and the Sun City retirement village in Florida...