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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Olympian Bobby Hackett is a strong lure but he will leave after two more seasons. So this is the year that Harvard must land several top recruits if the drive toward national prominence is to be continued...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Scoring in Cleveland | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...officials say Harvard students play so much basketball and tennis at municipal playgrounds up and down Memorial Drive that there is no room left for Cambridge residents to use the facilities. "It's a severe problem at the Corporal Burns," a playground on Memorial Drive near Mather House, councilor Kevin P. Crane '73, said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Playground Permit System Proposed | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

Graham said the problem has existed "for years," but officials were especially concerned now because the city plans to construct a new playground--the Riverside Press Project--this summer on Memorial Drive...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Playground Permit System Proposed | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

Like some other recent new models, the X cars will have front-wheel drive; with FWD, engine power is delivered to the front wheels to pull the car. European manufacturers have long been using FWD, but the U.S. industry began and grew up with rear-wheel drive, and Detroit's chiefs regarded changing to FWD as prohibitively expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Total Revolution | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...which last year had foreign sales of $11 billion, vs. Ford's $13 billion, is speeding to catch up, and, with its fat pocketbook and drive, it might overtake Ford in the next decade. GM .has the other emerging world car in its popular Chevette, and its X cars are prime candidates for world status. Estes aims to increase GM's unit sales abroad by 8% a year through 1985, making major pushes not only in Europe but also in Mexico, South America, Korea, Japan and Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Total Revolution | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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