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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season in a weekend," O'Neil said. "Our main focus is winning the Ivy championship...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Fencers Snatch One, Drop One | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

Bailyn uses the Register as a pair of binoculars to focus on the origins and destinations of specific people--like James Metcalf Jr., a 27-year-old Methodist farmer who left his native Hawnby, Scotland in 1772 to settle in a remote outpost of Nova Scotia...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Colt, | Title: Glossies, Maps and History | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...Education is power. That's why it's the focus of the struggle in South Africa," Ross said...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: SASC, Dem Club Collect Goods | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

...advice and protection. Said a nervous Manhattan brokerage executive: "Everyone is scared to read the newspaper in case his name might be in it." Similar jitters struck in Los Angeles, where guards carefully screened visitors to the offices of one of the country's hottest investment firms, now the focus of curiosity and controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Crooks | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Those long-suppressed anxieties surfaced last week as the insider-trading probe began to focus on Drexel and several of its top officials. Resale prices for many of the $120 billion in outstanding junk bonds slumped sharply, and investors wondered if the world of high-yield, high-risk finance was crumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jitters in the Junkyard | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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