Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flip side, the Crimson gave B.U. goalie Maria Dunn quite a workout, pummeling the injured senior with difficult shots. Despite giving up nine goals, Dunn played excellent defense and came up with 67 saves for the night...
Tending the Twines: Goalies from opposing teams have a large advantage over their Crimson counterparts in saves this season: 132-80. But that deficit is more indicative of the strength of the Crimson blueliners than of any failings by Harvard goalies Dickie McEvoy and John Devin. The flip side of this equation is that the Crimson offense gets off more shots than its opponents...
...FLIP SIDE of the old saw about politics making strange bed-fellows is that it can also make weird sparring partners. In June Renata Adler published two long articles in successive issues of The New Yorker on the libel trials of General William Westmoreland v. CBS and General Ariel Sharon v. Time Magazine. The pieces were a full-scale assault on the libel laws and a scathing attack on the two media giants for bungling--and then vehemently defending--their stories on the two former commandants...
...California, Democratic Senator Alan Cranston widened an early lead by depicting Republican Opponent Ed Zschau as flip-flapping on issues. Zschau struck back, using Cranston's opposition to the death penalty to charge that the three-term Democrat is soft on terrorists and drug dealers. The latest polls show Zschau closing in on Cranston...
...flip side of the middle-class exodus that has many liberal scholars in an uproar. Economist Barry Bluestone of the University of Massachusetts believes the shift in the U.S. economy from unionized, factory work to service-industry professions has brought a substantial loss of jobs with middle-class pay. The blue-collar jobs tended to be unionized, goes the argument, while the new service industries typically offer no such wage and , job protection. Says Michael Boskin, a professor of economics at Stanford: "Some sectors of the middle class that had implicit security in their jobs have been rudely awakened...