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...NOTEBOOK: Assumption's Carol Krupa came into the game needing 13 points for 1000 in her career. She fell just five short, but her quest seemed to disrupt her team's play...Harvard women's soccer goalie-extraordinate Trace Whitley made her hoop debut in the closing minutes and brought down the house with a sneak-away lay-up...Harvard (1-0) plays Friday and Saturday in the Harvard Invitational...Senior Co-Captain Wendy Joseph sat out last night's contest with an injury but could be back as early as this weekend...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Women Cagers Open Year By Trouncing Assumption | 11/21/1984 | See Source »

...intertwined are the operations in the U.S. and Canada that the 36,500 Canadian GM workers can disrupt production throughout the GM system in both countries. The Windsor trim plant, for instance, produces seat backs, seat cushions and sun visors for every domestic GM assembly plant. Since GM, like other automakers, has adopted new materials-handling techniques that keep inventories low, it could run out of vital parts in just a few days. Even worse, its dealers in both the U.S. and Canada could find themselves quickly short of new models, in part because new-car stocks are still depleted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Border Skirmish | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...Doesn't an invitation to someone like Secretary Weinberger to speak at Harvard constitute an implicit endorsement of his policies and thus justify efforts to disrupt the speech by those who deeply disagree with those policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

Local residents complained that such construction would disrupt their neighborhood with yet another imposing structure and questioned the developer's qualifications for federal financial assistance...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Local Residents Halt Building With City's Aid | 9/18/1984 | See Source »

...independence from Britain in 1962. The once powerful and privileged Baganda tribe in the south has chafed under a central government and army largely controlled by Langi and Acholi tribesmen from the north. The discontent has given rise to a ragtag insurgent movement that has tried to disrupt Obote's efforts to reassert control. The government has taken brutal countermeasures. Ugandan soldiers have destroyed villages and crops and herded civilians into detention camps in an effort, as Abrams put it, "to dry up the civilian sea that the guerrillas swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda: Tarnished Pearl | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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