Word: goals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard (12-6-1 overall) wasted little time--16 seconds to be exact--in getting the game-winning goal. And who better to get it than sophomore sensation Char Joslin, who had scored five out of the Crimson's last eight goals coming into last night's action...
...months it has been apparent that Moscow wants to quit a war that has claimed as many as 30,000 Soviet and more than 1 million Afghan lives, and sent at least 3 million Afghans fleeing to Pakistan and Iran. But Gorbachev's unstated goal -- strikingly similar to the Nixon Administration's declared policy in Viet Nam -- seems to be two-pronged: not merely to pull out Soviet troops but also to prolong the life of the Soviet-installed government of Najibullah, also known as Najib, the former secret police chief who took power...
Starting in January, Japan joined an international moratorium on all commercial whaling. But last week a small Japanese expedition began killing minke whales off the coast of Antarctica. The goal: a catch of 300 whales. U.S. Commerce Secretary William Verity immediately declared Japan in violation of its agreement to observe the moratorium. Under U.S. law, Verity may recommend that President Reagan impose trade sanctions on Japan. If that & happens, the President must either impose the sanctions or explain to Congress why such action is not warranted. Japanese officials called Verity's pronouncement "extremely regrettable" and expressed hope that the issue...
That more cheerful view of growing old is gaining currency mainly because of the rapidly expanding scientific discipline of gerontology. Modern studies of the aging process involve everyone from laboratory researchers examining brain tissue to nutritionists interviewing nonagenarians to physicians specializing | in treating the elderly. The goal of gerontology is not to extend the upper limit of human life -- now about 115 to 120 years of age -- but to make the lives of the elderly less burdensome physically and more rewarding emotionally. "The new focus," says Dr. John Rowe, director of the division on aging at Harvard Medical School...
...because of a guy named Duke Stump. Who admits that he's not a goal scorer. Don't tell that to his subjects...