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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back-slappin drinkers cheer the heavyweight brawl...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...fans at Bright. From the "sieve" cheer right down to Adam Beren's cowbell, Section 13 and company supplied more of a home-ice advantage than Harvard's had in many years. Screw...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Some Good News and Some Bad News | 3/19/1981 | See Source »

Despite the team's convincing loss, freshmen Maria Pe and Erica Schulman gave the small crowd something to cheer about by winning their singles matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Neutralized by Northwestern, 7-2; Bougas Falls, But Pe and Schulman Win | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

Tthe Prime Minister-designate, a tall and dour man, had little cheer to offer his fellow politicians. Spain's young democracy was entering a perilous new era, he warned. Spaniards were disenchanted and pessimistic, the economic situation was "bitter and hard." In those gloomy terms, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 54, last week went before the Cortes to seek approval for a new minority government.His 75-minute speech contained no bold departures, no ringing calls to greatness. Instead, it was a gingerly tiptoe around the thorny issues-divorce, Basque nationalism, party infighting-that had discouraged his predecessor, Adolfo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Bitter Times | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

Even by the rowdy standards of the House of Commons' "cheer and jeer" debate, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in for a bruising confrontation as she rose from the government front bench last week to answer hostile opposition challenges about the country's unemployment, the worst since the 1930s. Days earlier, when she wore a black dress, Labor M.P. William Hamilton had pointed a taunting finger at her and inquired derisively, "Is she dressed in black because of the unemployment figures?" Now she was meticulously turned out in a tailored gray suit, a soft white bow at her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Embattled but Unbowed | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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