Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither team got off to a fast start; a characteristic which had punctuated the past two Harvard-MIT games dictated that one team or another would get a big early lead. Although the Engineers took an 2-0 lead. Harvard came back to tie the game on goals by junior Stacey Moran and senior Tri-Captain Eileen Pratt before the first quarter ended...
...risk in racing in difficult weather is catching an oar in the waves. Under such conditions, crew becomes a maniacal struggle both to keep the craft afloat and to propel it as fast a possible...
...style of the 19th century. Enough of angst and ambiguity, of literary experiment. Bring on Trollope's nudging narrator and Dickens' moral confidence. The Hearts and Lives of Men -- surely a Victorian novelist would have come up with a livelier title -- is nonetheless set in modern times, specifically the fast-track London art world of the '60s and '70s. It covers 23 years in the lives of Clifford and Helen Wexford, an attractive, careless pair who marry, remarry, have messy affairs, manage to lose track of their little girl for a 14-year span -- and still retain the reader...
...party favorite, Michael Dukakis. The electrifying magnitude of this Rust Belt rebellion gave the preacher-politician the credibility he had long craved. Suddenly party leaders took seriously the inexorable delegate arithmetic that showed Jackson running neck and neck with Dukakis for the lead. At week's end the fast- shifting delegate tote board gave Dukakis 653 to Jackson's 646, with Albert Gore stalled in third place with...
Rivlin, who teaches a K-School course this semester on the congressional budget, claims that the current budget deficit is a "major fiscal policy mistake." She says that deficits must be reduced by sometime in the 1990s, cautioning that reducing the deficit too fast could cause a recession...