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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Berkman, the Spring Break tennisspree also has brought the team closer together...

Author: By Barbara VAN Gorder, | Title: Netwomen Come Home, End 1-5 West Coast Skid | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

Holway and Sullivan have voiced emphases closer to the political center. Holway has called for "more compassionate government"--and more stringent criminal sentencing. Sullivan's recent campaign announcement called on business and industry to augment social programs. She has also emphasized the housing and MBTA reform as issues to be addressed. Holway called Sullivan "a formidable opponent," rating White's candidacy as less of a challenge to his campaign...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: New Runners Join Senate Field | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

...number of high-profile black and women members, such as House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray of Philadelphia and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Moreover, it has expanded its ranks from about 20 to 110, of whom 79 are members of Congress. While the D.L.C. is not nudging any closer to the party's Old Guard, the Old Guard seems to be edging closer to the D.L.C. The recent move by as many as a dozen Southern states to coordinate an influential regional presidential primary in March 1988 may push the two factions into a bona fide embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising Stars From the Sunbelt | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

Students could be ranked by grade group, the top minds--with first crack at the choices--most likely opting for the river houses where they would closer to classes. But under this system the Quad would gain an additional stigma: "I live at the Quad" might become...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Notes of a Lottery Watcher | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

...week's end scientists were worried about Giotto's chances. As they continued to interpret Vega 1's data, they discovered that its passage through the dust jet had damaged 45% of the craft's solar panels. During Giotto's much closer encounter with the comet, the European probe was bound to pass through far thicker clouds of dust on what some scientists characterized as a "kamikaze mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Zeroing in on Halley's Comet | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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