Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sanders couldn't withstand Harvard's second half onslaught alone. The final frame showcased a number of moments for the Crimson highlight film--including a surprising dunk by 6-ft., 4-in. Collins on a fast break; 6-ft., 10-in. Mal Hollensteiner's first collegiate points (on a short shot from the baseline); and a free throw by freshman Sean Duffy to put Harvard into triple digits...
...city that has banned nerve gas, rent increases, animal testing, genetic engineering and even fast food goes a step farther. Led by City Councilor Al Vellucci, Cambridge seeks to ban all persons under 21 from the Harvard Square area. Asked to comment, Dean Spence says he favors the initiative...
...Reagan Administration invoked corpocracy as a reason to take the lead on another fast-rising issue: industrial competitiveness. Legislators began picking up that term during 1986, often as a politically palatable way to champion trade restrictions designed to help beleaguered industries in their home states. Some of those measures, which Congress is likely to debate in early 1987, could include export subsidies, import quotas or other protectionist steps that the Administration generally opposes. To pre-empt any protectionist bill, the Administration said in December that Reagan would announce his own competitiveness-boosting plan in January's State of the Union...
...with a spiritual retreat, planned earlier to help her reach a decision, at a convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration just outside Manila. "I had one day free, and I wanted to spend it praying," she explained. She told her Jesuit spiritual adviser that she wanted to fast, but he urged her not to. "The nuns will be so disappointed," he said, "if they cannot offer you food." She insisted, adding that she would bring only a few crackers to keep up her strength. In the end, Cory could not refuse the nuns' hospitality, and she sipped...
What is it like to live in these times? Take a tour with me. The country feels enormous still, and various, in spite of airport roads that look identical everywhere and stores that unite the country in a fast-food mythology. The electric glass of Dallas could not be mistaken for Boston's pedagogical tweed or San Diego's white sail. In New York City this season, the sky dims by 4 in the afternoon, and the shop lights pop on like gold-and-white lanterns...