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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investigators say that the companies just played fast and loose in interpreting the rules. One mind-boggling example of the old-new complexity: a now revised regulation stating that all petroleum pumped from a field that had even one well drilled before 1973 must be classified as being old oil. The idea was to stop companies from getting new-oil prices by drilling new wells into old reservoirs after 1973. The companies are accused of, among other things, ignoring this provision whenever they actually struck new oil in an old-oil field. Instead of selling it as old oil, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Big Oil Bummer | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard baseball team's hopes for an Eastern League championship and the accompanying NCAA playoff berth died yesterday at Cornell's Hoyt Field, where the Big Red defeated the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batsmen Lose | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

Although she did not set a record, Kim Johnson took the shotput with a 43-ft., 9 3 4-in. toss. Johnson also took third place in the New England Championships last Saturday, competing in what assistant coach Joli Sandoz called "the best shotput field I'd ever seen outside of a national meet...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Thinclads Stumble, 75-52, In Tough Season Finale | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

Ultimate Frisbee is played on a field 70 yards long by 30 yards wide with two 25-yard endzones. Play begins with a "Pull-off" in which one of the seven men on one team lofts the disc towards the opposing team at the opposite goal. Teams advance by completing passes to teammates upfield, and a goal is scored when a team member catches the discover the goal line...

Author: By Ted Teele, | Title: ULTIMATE FRISBEE | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

...battle of Massachusetts. And, once the dust had cleared, the Minutemen of UMass had prevailed by crunching the Harvard lacrosse team for the fourth consecutive year, 16-13, on a beautiful spring day yesterday at the Business School Field...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: UMass Drills Laxmen, 16-13 | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

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