Word: fights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell was the preliminary fight, while B.C., the third-ranked team in the east, was the main event, But like Mike Tyson, the Harvard women's tennis team recorded knockouts...
...happy to live in the murder capital of the world? Banning the imports of automatic weapons will just force drug dealers to "Kill American." It's a heck of a way to fight the trade deficit, Mr. President. You must take stronger action against guns, or else the violence will continue--that's more important than jeopardizing your life-time membership in the National Rifle Association...
...exit of Control Data could aggravate U.S.-Japan trade friction over supercomputers. Says Etsuro Yamada, a spokesman for Fujitsu: "The fact is that Control Data lost in a fight with Cray, but that may not be the way the Americans will look at it." The U.S. has long complained about the Japanese government's failure to buy U.S.-made supercomputers. The two countries signed a 1987 accord in which Tokyo agreed to eliminate discrimination against U.S. supercomputer makers in the purchasing procedures of Japanese government agencies and universities. But since then, Tokyo has failed to buy a single U.S. supercomputer...
...Congress and on at least two occasions visiting the White House, most of the time wearing a defiant grin; like many politicians, he can smile on cue, whatever his inner feelings. He emerged from a closed meeting of the Democratic Caucus to report, "I told them I intend to fight and I intend to win." He renewed a demand that the ethics committee call a hearing at which he could state his case publicly (Wright and attorney William Oldaker have already appeared before the committee in private...
...want to fight, and the athletic departmentisn't thrilled with the idea of boxing," Clarkesaid. "Competition fulfills what a program issupposed to do, but it just hasn't happened...