Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Down by as much as 17 in the first half. Harvard (9-10 overall, 2-6 in Ivy play) had fought back to within range of league-leading Penn (13-6, 7-0). Center Monroe Trout brought the cagers close with six points in the first six minutes of the second stanza, and Bob Ferry tallied 13 of his game-high 18 points in the last 12 minutes. Both shot phenomenally from the floor, six of seven and eight of 12 respectively...
...small river, 20 miles from the Honduran border. A concrete schoolhouse stood blackened and gutted by mortar fire. Brown-shirted members of Bismuna's Sandinista militia defense force gathered up unexploded mortar rounds and other debris of battle. Jorge Vargas Lopez, 38, a combat veteran who fought in Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista revolution of 1979, pointed to boot tracks near the river. Said he: "Those are Honduran military boots they were wearing...
...Prime Minister Indira Gandhi last week, "is just so much political nonsense." Translation: she is going downhill all right, but she is fighting back. Her Congress (I) Party (the "I" is, of course, for Indira) has not won a majority in any of the eight state elections it has fought since Mrs. Gandhi's return to power in 1980. It fared particularly badly last month in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, which had supported the Congress Party since India became independent in 1947. More elections were scheduled in the Union Territory of Delhi last weekend...
Occidental Petroleum is currently groaning under the burden of Cities Service, for which it shelled out $4 billion last year. Oxy's long-term debt has now jumped from $1 billion to $5 billion, while its earnings have dropped from $722 million to $221 million. Similarly, U.S. Steel fought off Mobil to rescue Marathon Oil and is now struggling with the $6.7 billion price of its chivalry. Its steel business is down sharply, and while Marathon's earnings were at a record high last year, they are currently threatened by the downturn in oil prices. To help compensate...
...Lions' temporary momentum was quickly stifled by sophomore standout Sean Wallace, who edged his way to a hard-fought, 3-2 victory over Columbia's Stefan Antonssen by maintaining a tenuous hold in the final moments. Crimson freshman Kevin Wattles clinched the victory with a 4-3 decision in the 190-lb. weight class over Andy Barth, scoring a timely escape in the final period...