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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purpose of the trip wasn't so much for hockey," Harvard Captain Lane MacDonald said. "It was a nice trip and it was tough to play under all those travel conditions...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen Gain Split | 1/4/1989 | See Source »

...think it was important to play against high-caliber teams," Captain Lane MacDonald said. "We hope to adapt some of their style to our game...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen Gain Split | 1/4/1989 | See Source »

...Such a product should feature a victim and killer, preferably related to each other, who share the same demographics and conventions as the middle-class readership. The appeal of this sort of thing is obvious, as Joe McGinniss proved in Fatal Vision (1983), the best seller about U.S. Army Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, a physician convicted in 1979 of murdering his wife and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpents in The Garden State | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...until last October that the Pelicano brazenly dumped 4,000 lbs. of its unwanted cargo off a Haitian beach, then slipped back out to sea, trailing / fresh reports that it was illegally deep-sixing the rest of its noxious cargo. A month later, off Singapore, its captain announced that he had unloaded the ash in a country he refused to name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Waste A Stinking Mess | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...devastated. It was nice to know Zumwalt thought well of me, but I was a captain at the time, and in losing the cruiser, I was convinced I'd never be an admiral. I figured my education had torpedoed my future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Admiral William Crowe: Of War and Politics | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

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