Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the center are not entirely happy with this new role. "We don't want to be too dependent on the corporations, and we don't want to be too dependent on the government," Goldman says. "Right now we're a red feather in Harvard's cap--and it may be up to them to keep us there...
...Since its formation in 1844 during the Bourbon monarchy, the corps had been the efficient internal security force of the central government in Madrid. Under Franco, it became part of the dictatorship's apparatus of repression. For many Spaniards, the gray-green uniform and the black patent-leather cap remain symbols of reaction and oppression. Thus hardly anyone in Spain was surprised last week when the coup attempt turned out to be spearheaded by men from the corps's traffic division...
...tied for the top place in the high jump, and finished just behind Lowell's MARTY ASHLEY in the shot. Led by roommates' JOAN CORSIGLIA and KRISTEN MERTZ's one-two photo finish in the mile. Winthrop crushed the rest of the college and picked up 75 crucial Straus Cap points...
...draw benefits after they have recovered from their ailments. The General Accounting Office estimated in January that up to 584,000 people who are "not currently disabled" still get some $2 billion a year in insurance payments. Reagan has proposed to remove ineligibles from the rolls, put a cap on benefits so that no person can draw from various disability plans, including workmen's compensation and veterans' programs, more money than he made while he was working. Reagan would also limit eligibility to people who worked six of the 13 previous quarters, rather than 20 of the past...
...envoys, headed by Lieut. General Vernon Walters, set out for Latin America. Secretary of State Alexander Haig headed for Capitol Hill to brief congressional leaders. The State Department provided embassies of friendly governments in Washington with a lengthy memorandum detailing its evidence. This week the Administration will cap its campaign with the release of a "white paper" summarizing its case that, as one State Department official put it, "El Salvador is an East-West conflict...