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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camp for the Canadian Junior Olympic team, instilled with the impression from coaches that he would make the roster which would compete in a Finland over the Christmas holiday. The Harvard defenseman went to the camp last Wednesday, but was sent packing Saturday morning after failing to, make the cut...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Canadians Ignore Sneddon and Roy | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...activists' customized salvage tug Greenpeace shadowed the sub, the support ships Kittiwake and Grasp repeatedly rammed the vessel, punching a hole in her side just above the waterline. Meanwhile, sailors trained fire hoses on the Greenpeace, flooding her engines, while Navy SEAL frogmen cut the fuel lines of one of two antinuke motorboats trying to disrupt the test. "A terrible outrage . . . an unbridled act of aggression!" cried Greenpeace's executive director as the group prepared legal action against the Navy. Just | outside the launch area, the battle -- and the test-firing -- were monitored by a Soviet trawler bristling with electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy: Butt Out, Greenpeace | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...Compaq, Apple and Sun Microsystems have won over legions of business users. As a result, IBM's earnings have slipped from $6.6 billion in 1984 on total sales of $46 billion to an estimated $5.5 billion last year on total sales of $60 billion. In an attempt to cut its costs and become a more nimble competitor, IBM last week announced its fourth belt-tightening program in three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPUTERS: The Elephant Tries to Dance | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Conservative activists were concerned that Bush had gone too far in pledging to help Gorbachev economically. Military experts doubted that treaties to cut nuclear warheads and European force levels could be completed by next June, or anytime next year. The President promised to "kick our bureaucracy and push it as fast as I possibly can" to meet the deadlines. Yet despite the smiles in Malta, the obstacles to arms control are more than bureaucratic; the two leaders did little to resolve fundamental disagreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...work cut out for us," Young said. "Right now we're really struggling, and we've got to use this game as an opportunity to find ourselves. The Dartmouth game is first on the schedule and first on our minds at this point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cleary Clan Finally Comes Home to Bright for Christmas | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

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