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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the wait finally ended for La Vigne, the three Harvard icemen have just completed a rigourous 60-game tour of the U.S. and Canada, which featured games against professional, college and other Olympic Teams. The Olympians trounced the Harvard hockey team in early November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Next Stop: Calgary for Harvard's Best | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...business, the Council adopted an order proposed by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci inviting Soviet world chess champion Gary Kasparov to Cambridge for the city's second annual chess tournament later this month. The champion will be in North America prior to the tournament on a visit to New Brunswick, Canada...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Revitalization Plan Approved | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

...institutions of sport and democracy, not only as an innovator, but as a disseminator. No country can claim to be the birthplace of so many world-popular sports; football, baseball and basketball are just a few that enjoy popularity in at least one foreign country (if one counts Canada as a foreign country). Nor can any nation country claim to have forcibly installed democracy in so many formerly deprived nations...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: That Four-Year Itch | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

While hypermarkets have spread across Canada, which has 22 such stores, they have only now become a hot concept in the U.S. One reason is that America has so many competing discount stores and supermarkets that the Carrefour concept had trouble gaining acceptance. Analysts estimate that Bigg's, a Cincinnati hypermarket opened by Euromarche, a French firm, has lost at least $9 million since it was opened three years ago. But the large U.S. chains believe they can make the idea work by selling name-brand goods at paper-thin markups. K mart announced last September that it will form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come Malls Without Walls | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Many Eastern exports are now high-profile performers, including Czechoslovakia's Smetana Quartet, a string ensemble that earns $5,000 a performance in Western cities. Czechoslovak Hockey Player Jaroslav Pouzar, 36, helped Canada's Edmonton Oilers win three Stanley Cup championships. Though most East bloc talents are more modestly gifted, Western clients are usually delighted with them. Says a Viennese cabaret manager who hires Polish dancers: "They are better trained than Westerners, work longer and cost less." A four-man Prague dance band called Bob's Combo belts out tunes in English, German and even Japanese aboard the Royal Caribbean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales of The Flesh Trade | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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