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...basketball agreement calls for Khashoggi to pay $6 million to cover the outstanding debts of the ten-year-old Jazz franchise, which moved from New Orleans to Salt Lake City in 1979, and $2 million to defray operating costs. After dismal performances in earlier years, the Jazz this past season had its best record ever (45-37), won the Midwest division, and made it to the Western division : semifinals before being defeated by Phoenix. That marked the club's first appearance in a postseason playoff. Last week Jazz officials foresaw no difficulty in obtaining approval for the sale from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Saudi Digs the Jazz in Utah | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...initial chapters deal with Western attitudes towards childrearing and with Western gynecologists and their sometimes abhorrent maltreatment of women-which add up to pretty dismal picture for those with maternal (or paternal) instincts. Throughout the book. Greer cites numerous anthropological, sociological, and psychological studies: her claims, if somewhat outrageous, are almost always based on well-documented research. But in a section on the importance of fertility, Greer's biases begin to manifest themselves in her less-than-objective tone. Her well-supported argument occasionally loses ground in spurts of emotionalism and-over-statement...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Be Fruitful and Multiply | 7/6/1984 | See Source »

...game brought to a satisfying end a year that saw the team's fortunes turn around after a dismal start. Although admittedly outclassed in its early-season contests at national powers Penn. Johns Hopkins and Syracuse, the Crimson was still disappointed to limp out to a 2-4 start...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Laxmen Finish Season on Winning Note | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

DEVELOPMNET ECONOMICS is a faddish field. While other practitioners of the dismal science study the herd mentality, development economists practice it. But despite many voices, consensus is hard to come by. The field's single universally accepted truth may well be the assertion that despite 35 years of attention, the problems of the Third World seem as intractable as ever. But in this mercurial field. P. T. Bauer has remained an academic constant...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: The Joy of Capitalism | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...yesterday's loss to Main, played in dismal 40-degree weather, the Crimson was not able to produce any substantial offense. Besides Boyer's leadoff single, the batwomen came up with only two other hits. Maine recorded six hits and took advantage of six Harvard errors to triumph, 5-0. It was the second time this season the Crimson had been shut out, both times by scores...

Author: By Kevin Carier, | Title: Batwomen End Up 2-1 for Weekend: Take Doubleheader, Shut Out by Bears | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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