Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There, Harvard got blown out. The Cross scored three minutes into the frame when flanker Rick Lane shorthopped a Wiley (17-for-37, 318 yards, 4 interceptions) pass in the endzone. The officials ruled it a catch, and the Cross...
...time when the Chinese have paused to catch their breath, the Soviets have spurted ahead in the more nebulous area of reform termed glasnost. Chinese Kremlin watchers were stunned when Gorbachev rebuked at least 16 ministers and party officials by name in his June speech to the Central Committee plenum. And nothing in China can quite compare with Soviet TV shows like Good Evening, Moscow and Dialogue, which mix news of perestroika with round-table discussions. A recent broadcast pitted squirming agricultural officials against incensed consumers, who waved bags of tasteless, undersized green apples at the camera and demanded...
...first took office in 1979. By and large, the companies have prospered. Since it came to power last year, the Chirac government in Paris has sold 25 companies, including the merchant bank Paribas, the telecommunications giant CGE and the large commercial bank Societe Generale. The idea has started to catch on elsewhere. In Portugal, where state businesses have sucked $13 billion in operating losses and subsidies from the economy since the leftist revolution of 1974, the new Social Democratic socialist government of Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva has promised similar reforms...
Hold down Gordie Lockbaum? The Heisman Trophy candidate has rushed for 10 touchdowns and caught six more. He averages 4.7 yards a run and 15.6 yards a catch...
...four heaviest trading days in New York exchange history all occurred last week. The turnover strained the exchange's computer network to the limit, and the Big Board decided to knock off trading two hours early on Friday and this Monday and Tuesday to allow exhausted brokers time to catch up on their paperwork...