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...lightweights, after last week's impressive win over Dartmouth and MIT, the boat remains essentially unchanged--but Coach Charles Butt has done some shuffling of his port side in a search for the fastest possible combination...

Author: By Ken Segel, | Title: Harvard Crews to Shift Seating | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

Ersek, one of the fastest players on the Harvard women's lacrosse team, wasn't used to being outrun...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Minutewomen of UMass March Past Laxwomen | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

Lightweight Co-Captain Clara Bui feels that the merger will lead to a greater potential for Radcliffe regatta sweeps. She expains that the lightweight eight competition is so thin that the Radcliffe team will probably beat any lightweight eight, despite the fact that the fastest lightweights are in the first lightweight four and JV openweight boats...

Author: By Helen Lee, | Title: Radcliffe Crews Cruise Despite a Choppy Charles | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...investment to another as the economic winds change. Says Alfred Johnson, chief economist for the Investment Company Institute: "They no longer view IRAs as passive accounts that gather dust until retirement. IRAs have become aggressive investment tools. Consumers invest in them because they want to get rich." The fastest-growing new account is the self-directed variety, in which the customer can switch from, say, Treasury bonds to a real estate investment trust. Citibank offers an account called Direct Access that enables investors to monitor their IRAs on home computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild About IRAs | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...post that resembles the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek. Drug agents hover 24 hours a day over four multicolored radar screens that display the entire region's traffic. When authorities spot a suspicious craft, they quickly calculate which law- enforcement boats or planes can make the fastest interception. Then they dispatch the police craft with a state-of-the-art radio network that puts dozens of federal and local agencies on the same wavelength. Customs Service technicians built the system from scratch, starting with computer software borrowed from the Pentagon. "We're light-years ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buried By a Tropical Snowstorm | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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