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Word: deficit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Facing a 3-0 deficit at the start of the second period, Harvard started a comeback. After squandering two St. Lawrence penalties, the Crimson finally scored on a herculean effort by Ron Mark at 14:43. Mark took the puck at the Harvard blue line, wheeled and twisted through several St. Lawrence defenders and beat goalie Jerry Healey for an unassisted goal. But Erickson deflected in a Larrie shot at 18:53, and Harvard ended the period no better off than before...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: St. Lawrence Checks Harvard 6-4; Skaters Suffer 2nd Straight Loss | 2/19/1968 | See Source »

...Harvard basketball team mounted a second half surge of heroic proportions to overcome a five-point half-time deficit, but Cornell's rugged Walt Eisdail sparked a countersurge which foiled the Crimson in the end, 77-68, last night at Ithaca...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Cornell Tops Five | 2/17/1968 | See Source »

According to Bat officials, the club's real problem is a lack of adequate alumni backing. When the club's deficit began to rise this year, the alumni board was not able to respond...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Bat Club Evicted From Headquarters; Alumni Board Will Decide Its Future | 2/12/1968 | See Source »

...spending on travel outside the Western Hemisphere by $350 million a year, part of a program to trim $3 billion from the estimated $3.5 billion to $4 billion balance of payments deficit, Johnson has set his sights on the big spenders. His major proposals: 1) a tax, effective May 1, on expenditures by travelers abroad of more than $10 a day, which is scarcely enough to pay for the sauce béarnaise on the tournedos at Maxim's; 2) a 5% tax on ship and air fares to the Eastern Hemisphere; and 3) cuts in the $100 customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Bad News for Big Spenders | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...their inadequacy has become painfully obvious. Since 1964 the poor nations' balance of payments deficit has jumped from $10 billion to $40 billion. Now the poor nations are looking for an entirely new system of trade...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Poor and Rich | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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