Word: foes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite being situated in the ominous position of having more losses than victories going into its own tournament, Harvard defeated Vermont, Hartford, New Hampshire and even Ivy League- foe Brown to claim the Harvard Invitational title. Thus, the Invitational provided a major confidence boost just five days before the Ivy Championships...
...Qu?bec separatism, growing unemployment and a sagging national health care system. Taking up the position of chief opposition party is the Alberta-based Reform Party, whose right-wing, populist agenda dominated in the West. That was enough to push the separatist Bloc Qu?becois, the Reform Party's diehard foe, into the number two government heckler slot, further muddying the chances for a national referendum on Qu?bec independence. The Liberals now face a House of Commons sharply divided along regional lines, with two smaller opposition parties, the right-wing Progressive Conservatives and the left-wing New Democrats, posting impressive comebacks...
DIED. GEORGE WALD, 90, politically engaged biologist whose research on how the eye transmits images to the brain earned him a 1967 Nobel Prize; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A proponent of "survival politics," he became an outspoken Vietnam War opponent, arms-race foe and human-rights advocate...
...Radcliffe heavyweight crew will face off with Syracuse and Ivy League foe Dartmouth in New Hampshire...
...Mobutuism is about to become a creature of history," White House press secretary Mike McCurry said. Tshisekedi, an opposition activist whom the president reluctantly appointed just a week ago, was forced into a vehicle and driven away by six soldiers as he arrived to assume the post. A longtime foe of Mobutu, he had been given the post in an effort to stave off Kabila's advancing rebel forces, which already control nearly half of the country. But Tshisekedi's challenges to Mobutu's once unquestionable authority -- ordering a parliament packed with Mobutu's supporters dissolved, annulling the constitution...