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Hartford went on a 6-0 run with six minutes left in the half to pull within two at 29-27. James then hit a running layup in the paint to extend the Crimson lead, and Harvard went in to the locker room holding a 36-32 advantage Crimson 73-67 in Hartford HARVARD 36-37--73 Hartford...
...York's, rather than Massachusetts's, hospital system was studied, Hiatt said, primarily because of New York's willingness to extend economic support and provide vast amounts of complex, highly sensitive data. New York State contributed $3.5 million to the $4 million cost of the study, Hiatt said...
...will find that my memos to the President about that time -- 1966 -- said, "There is no good choice open to us." With hindsight, I think some of us misjudged Chinese objectives with respect to the extension of Chinese power. We thought there was considerable evidence China intended to extend its hegemony across Southeast Asia and perhaps beyond, but I'm not at all sure now that was their intent...
...military superpower as far back as 1971. As Vice President, he established in many countries clandestine procurement units that drew upon a secret Swiss bank account stoked by skimming 5% off Iraq's burgeoning oil revenues. Through the '70s Iraq purchased weapons from the Soviets, who were eager to extend their influence in the Middle East. Saddam's interest was to counter a U.S.-engineered arms buildup in Iran. Western sympathies shifted against Tehran after the 1979 Islamic revolution, which ousted the Shah and brought the Ayatullah Khomeini to power. After Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, France proved...
...several past recessions, Congress and the states responded to widespread joblessness by allocating extra money to unemployment trusts so they could extend worker benefits for a few additional months. But during the past few years the Federal Government and the states have tightened eligibility for such benefits. Only Alaska and Rhode Island are currently expanding the assistance. And with everything from the gulf war to the savings and loan bailout competing for scarce federal funds, Congress is not eager to press such a move. For the moment, once they exhaust the standard benefits period, the jobless are on their...