Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closer than four seat lengths until just 50 meters remained in the 1500 meter contest, the Black and White lightweights sprinted in the final 20 strokes to eke out the narrowest of victories...
Meanwhile, earlier and closer to home, the Harvard lightweight eights open their season on the Charles against MIT and Dartmouth, competing for the Biglin Bowl...
...they are the natural result. Studies clearly show that pornography increases male subjects' acceptance of rape and sexual violence. Moreover, it clearly communicates that such violence is "fun," "exciting" and "okay." In fact, many of the most heinous sex crimes are performed using pornography as a text-book. Still closer to home, the Harvard study of sexual harassment among peers found that at least 2 percent of Harvard women had been raped by a fellow Harvard student (this does not include the number of women from other colleges who are raped on the Harvard campus). Nationally, one of every three...
Those members of the 82nd Airborne Division who parachuted from helicopters as Grenadian soldiers fired at them from the ground were, quite rightly, granted medals. But so were a number of chairbound bureaucrats who got no closer to the fighting than an office in the Pentagon. While there were 275 decorations for valor, wounds or combat deaths, the Army also honored some troops who remained in the safe environs of Army bases like Fort Bragg, N.C., waiting to be called. Defending the awards, which the other services handed out more conservatively, against charges of "medal inflation," Army Spokesman Major Robert...
...That threat roused international concern. If Saddam Hussein proved as bad as his word, the war between Iraq and Iran might extend to other parts of the Persian Gulf and affect oil shipments of such Iraqi neighbors and benefactors as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Last week those fears came closer to facts. Baghdad sent the French planes into action, striking two ships. As it happened, neither was carrying Iranian oil, and both were under contract to Kuwaiti and Saudi oil companies...