Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year it was even closer. It started out a real sleeper, with no scoring in the first 27 minutes. Then quarterback Don Allard raced into the end zone with 2:44 remaining in the first half to give Harvard the 7-0 advantage...
...BLACK, a woman, two Jews, and a cripple. This time, Interior Secretary James G. Watt hit the jackpot. This tasteless description of the composition of a newly appointed coal-lease commission brought Watt closer to being ousted from the White House than ever before...
...insulting remarks. The last time Watt provoked this such angry press was when he barred the Beach Boys from performing on the Washington Mall for the Fourth of July. Of course, each new unpopular action Watt takes is welcome, no matter how insubstantial--anything that brings the man closer to the day when Reagan will have no choice but to fire him. It would be more comforting, however, if the public found his serious policies as distressing as his jokes: his replacement may have no sense of humor at all--then we'd be stuck with...
...American countries. He criticized what he called the Reagan Administration's "reluctance to view the political and economic affairs in Latin America in their true perspective," adding that recent U.S. policies "have moved such countries as Nicaragua further away from the American sphere of influence rather than bringing them closer...
...possible that the Australian's victory was Soviet-backed, a deliberate attempt to demoralize America in these times of stress. Don't forget that the keel was designed and tested in the Netherlands, which are a whole lot closer to Moscow than Sydney...