Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Army wishbone offense, however, wears out the tired Crimson defense to score seven straight touchdowns for a 49-14 lead. The Cadets eventually win, 56-28. Harvard has not given up this many points in 29 seasons...
Harvard rallies back to close within a touchdown, 28-21. But the Engineers are too tough and capture a 50-28 victory. Lehigh finishes the day with 671 yards of total offense. It marks the first time the Crimson has given up 40-plus points in consecutive games...
About the "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE" bumper stickers which Professor Blumenthal would stick on the BMW s of our generation (and given our single-mindedness, we will, I read, all have them). To begin with, Professor Blumenthal assumes that the decision "not to crowd the other one" is necessarily selfish. On the one hand, the decision "not to crowd" is an economic reality. The American dream of living better than our parents, or living as well as our parents, simply requires more effort today than it did. The dual-career family, which only became the norm with our parents' generation...
...when President Bush singled out the company's business products and systems division, which makes its copiers, as one of two winners of the 1989 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The awards, named for the Commerce Secretary who died in 1987, were , established by Congress to motivate U.S. companies. Given for the first time last year, they have already become a sought-after prize in corporate America. Collecting the other 1989 award: Milliken & Co., a leading textiles manufacturer based in Spartanburg, S.C. Bush, who has seized the quality banner to promote American competitiveness, presented the awards at the Commerce Department...
Much of what the critics say is based on secret documents and firsthand experience, and will be hard for the government to refute. People's Deputy Yuri Voronezhtsev, from Byelorussia, near Chernobyl, says medical records contradict the official claim that iodine was given to all of those exposed to radiation in order to prevent the absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid gland. Another Byelorussian, writer Ales Adamovich, says local officials ignored the appeals of a physicist to evacuate the area until he showed them that party headquarters itself was contaminated...