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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performing. But privately, they had to be questioning their scheme, wondering what had happened late Saturday night when the plant, under control of MASCO's higher-ups, stopped functioning and the emergency switches had to be thrown. They had to know that the 13 hospitals and institutions which count on the plant for heat, chilled water and air conditioning would not be reassured if the lights started to dim or the incubators started to cool off. They had to worry about the strike continuing longer than they'd like, about local news films showing Harvard-hired security agents throwing picketers...
Dale, the only man ever to wield the Stadium p.a. since its installation in 1931, began with a 7-0 Cornell lead late in the Harvard first quarter. The fans roared; so did a few players. When Dale's count reached 21-0 in favor of the Big Red at halftime, Crimson partisans smelled blood--and a possible Ivy League championship. Yale's loss means that if Harvard defeats Penn next week and the Elis the next, the Crimson will share the Ivy title. Worth yelling about...
...consultants and journalists, all in vast numbers. The number of lawyers alone would drive Plato to despondency. Ever since Government started going after business, business started hiring lawyers. In July 1973 there were 10,925 attorneys listed as members of the District of Columbia bar. Two months ago, the count was up to 33,457. Naturally, the number of offices has also shot up - by 57% in the past five years. And restaurants (mainly French) and stores (mainly chic). In 1976 Bloomingdale's set out to surround the District by opening one branch in Virginia and then, six months...
...keyed former financial expert had just handed a devastating defeat to Prime Minister Michael N. Manley, the buoyant leader of the People's National Party. In a reversal of the landslide Manley won in the past two elections, the final count might give the Labor Party 51 of the 60 seats in the country's Parliament, a gain of 38 over the 1976 election. The People's Party was reduced from 47 to a mere 9. With that, the island nation had taken a sharp turn in its political course: away from Manley's pro-Cuban...
...going to make the long trek up to Bowdoin, you might as well make it count, and the Crimson did, totally dominating the first half and then coasting home on the coattails of Lance Ayrault's four tallies--his eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh of the season...