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...EISL championship has been the focal points of our entire season," Peterson said. "Now that we've accomplished our goal we're looking forward to making a name for Harvard in the NCAAs...

Author: By Tom W. Grave, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Aquamen Break Tigers' Domination of Easterns | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...This is just as much a focal point of human services as any place in the entire city," Bergaman said yesterday, standing in the middle of the cramped, basement space of the CEOC building around the corner from City Hall...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: Food Pantry Reaches Out to Needy | 3/3/1992 | See Source »

...pick Garrison as the focal point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plunging into The Labyrinth | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...women work at the site; some are second-generation employees, and most are unwilling to utter even a word about the facility, having been sworn to secrecy. Beyond preparing to cope with the effects of a nuclear attack, the facility conducts substantial research into radiological instrumentation and is a focal point for disaster information. Eight engineers, technicians and scientists assigned to Mount Weather's radiological instrumentation test facility work on a variety of projects, including the development of radiation-measuring instruments used for both civil defense purposes and peacetime emergencies. The complex is also home to the National Emergency Coordination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Defense Doomsday Hideaway | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

Stalingrad, a great sprawl of a city on the Volga, became the focal point of the struggle. It had originally been named Tsaritsyn, and during the bloody civil war it was successfully defended against the rightist White Army by Stalin himself, who gave it his name. The Russians knew that if they did not tie down the Germans at Stalingrad, the war would virtually be lost. Not only would the huge cities of the north be bereft of supplies from the fertile south, but the oil fields of Baku that fueled the Russian war machine would fall to the Wehrmacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in Europe | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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