Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bruin fouled on the ensuring faceoff and as the Crimson was running the clock out. Hawley managed to beat Lohan one more time with just a second left in the game...
...loan for Argentina. Everyone liked the idea, and by the time the Punta del Este conference broke up on Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury was taking the lead in hammering out the details of a rescue plan. For the next 48 hours, negotiators and financial technicians worked almost round the clock in both Buenos Aires and Washington. Representatives of Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia joined in by telephone...
...Buenos Aires, while the British fleet moved down the South Atlantic like the weight on a clock, Galtieri told me, "The Argentine government is willing to find an honorable solution that will save Mrs. Thatcher's government. But we cannot sacrifice our honor." Then he lowered his voice, looked around the table at his colleagues, and added, "You will understand that the Argentine government has to look good...
...Harvard. "So it's that time of year again," the friendly professor is reported to have said on one occasion, before launching into his usual explanation that the increasing usefulness of economics is why more than 1000 students once again crowded into Sanders Theater to hear his 12 o'clock lectures...
...evening, Leningrad becomes deserted and lifeless. After seven or eight o'clock on a Saturday evening, the activity and the animation, disappear. My first night there, I drifted about Leningrad naively, expecting to sit down in a bar or a restaurant to chart with some Russians. But that venture proved to be impossible. The only people who I came those fishing along the Neva river...