Word: contests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first 40 minutes, the game looked eerily similar to the earlier contest in upstate New York. The Raiders relied on their excellent goaltender, Wayne Cowley, long on hair and stellar saves...
Cornell (11-5 ECAC) won seven games in a row before dropping a 6-3 contest to St. Lawrence in Canton. N.Y. The Saints scored six goals in the third period to defeat...
Axelrod says his group has tried to remedy the problem. The Rhythm Method recently won $5000 in the national Energizer Battle of the Bands contest and offered the prize money to Harvard to pay for a rehearsal studio. But Assistant Dean for Physical Resources Phillip J. Parsons rejected their proposal because he did not consider rehearsal space for bands a priority. The Rhythm Method is still bargaining with the administration for a space here on campus, Axelrod says...
...present nomination system have their merits. On the surface, it seems illogical for such a small population--about 220,000 participating voters in a state with 3 million residents--so apparently unrepresentative of the national constituency--to have such a large impact on the nominating process. To make the contest a caucus, in which "horse-trading" and political bargaining can obscure public opinion, seems even more nonsensical...
...Simon won in Iowa, the race may have become the two-man contest--between him and Dukakis--that it promised to be before Hart's return in the fall. Enjoying a much stronger organization in New Hampshire than Gephardt, Simon looks to do well in next week's primary. An Iowa victory and the attendant media exposure would have enabled him to run an even stronger challenge in New Hampshire, where a narrow loss to Dukakis would be a triumph. Coupled with an Iowa win, this would have provided Simon with front-runner status going into Super Tuesday...