Word: getting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the score, it was Princeton that actually had the most scoring opportunities in the game, as the Tigers were able to get off threatening shots consistently throughout the game, but the Crimson made its few chances count...
...Overall, we did well. We played hard in the first half, but we let them get away from us in the third period and lost control and morale in the fourth," said senior Eric Bentley, who scored three goals from his hole-man position. "Our main problem in the second half was that no one was a big offensive threat. We needed a better balance between our outside shooting, driving and hole-play. We'll work on coordinating our offense this week...
George Bush says a woman should be able to get an abortion when she has been the victim of rape or incest. Yet the President last week announced that he would veto a bill that would provide Medicaid money to pay for such abortions. The bill put Bush in a difficult position. By denying the Medicaid funds, he was making abortion in those cases an alternative only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound...
...hours or less between the mainland and Alaska and Hawaii. The legislation, which is expected to pass both the House and Senate, also applies to foreign airlines for any part of their flights within the U.S. Flight attendants worried about their own health, and many airline executives happy to get rid of the hassle of separating smokers and nonsmokers, approved the ban. After this latest loss, the tobacco industry is using its declining clout to try to stop an increase in the cigarette tax and a ban on smoking in public places...
...newsprint, and gaping holes in the tin roof that allowed the rain to pour through. "Once a snake came up under the stove, and we got big rats in there all the time," recalled Anderson, 47, a big, strapping woman in a flowered blouse. "I couldn't wait to get away...