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...before Whitley can start planning an early Thanksgiving trip home, the Crimson must prove that last month's victory over the Minutemen was no fluke...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Booters Face UMass in NCAAs, Looking For a Final Four Ticket | 11/10/1984 | See Source »

Dear Marie: I watched with delight as the Washington Redskins annihilated the New York Giants this past Sunday. In your opinion, is this just a fluke or an actual trend? --Wondering in Winthrop...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: From the Mailbag | 9/19/1984 | See Source »

...muscles the thing would have sailed a quarter of a mile. Astonished observers in Central Park-the kind of place one would find a javelin or two lying around untended-would ask to see it done again. Why not? After a few more titanic tosses, just to show a fluke was not involved, a phone call to a proper authority, a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee, would have been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Daydreams on the Closing Night | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

Barring a major fluke. Carter's man, former Senator George M. McGovern, will not be the man to provide our leadership, but Carter intends to help put him up for nomination anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's only Delegate Will Still Back McGovern | 7/17/1984 | See Source »

...prime rate would move up a bit more in the coming months, to 13% or 13.5%, and then level off. That would be enough, the economists forecast, to moderate growth. The blistering 8.8% rate of rise in the gross national product in the first quarter was something of a fluke, caused in part by a rapid buildup of inventories. By the fourth quarter, G.N.P. growth is expected to slow to a more sustainable 3.5% pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecast: Sunshine on Election Day | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

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