Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't roll over in the face of its biggest league competition. Northeastern ran its advantage to 13-0 before the Crimson got in the game--and then it was too late to be playing catch-up ball. Despite a strong late-game surge, Harvard fell, 13-12, to N.U. Saturday at Magazine Beach in Boston. The loss should hurt the Crimson's regional standing heading into the New England Champion-ships early next month...
Harvard will most likely face Brown, the third seed, in the opening round of that tournament. This weekend at Blodgett, the Crimson takes on the Bruins in a battle of Ivy rivals...
...January, 1988, Pittston stopped paying such medical benefits. For 17 months, the UMWA postponed a strike and continued to work without a contract, while Pittston ceased paying into its benefit plan. This January, governors of three states intervened in the dispute, asking Pittston and the union to negotiate face to face. The miners agreed; Pittston refused...
...face of dwindling landfill space in their own countries, many companies in industrialized nations simply pay developing countries to accept their wastes. In a strict Ec 10 interpretation of the transaction, everything is OK. Both parties presumably benefit from a mutually agreeable exchange, even when that exchange involves something as fiscally myopic as cash for environmental destruction...
Massachusetts' public higher education was declared in a state of financial emergency earlier this week by the Board of Regents of Higher Education. That followed a $35 million statewide cut ordered in the face of the state's $340 million deficit...