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...ended last Saturday night far from Briggs, with a bitter one-point loss to a bunch of Yale freshmen in the gym where the Crimson's co-captains once recorded their career highs. Like the season, the game slipped away, and before Harvard could grab it and spend the time it would take to turn the whole thing around, it was gone...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Out of the Shadows | 3/14/1985 | See Source »

...score gave Harvard a 3-2 lead and, more important, forced Princeton out of its clutch and grab game in the third period...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Cagers, Icemen Earn Key Ivy Victories | 2/9/1985 | See Source »

...Harry Dean Stanton), the Captain Ahab of repo men, a proper mentor for Otto? Is the repo man's code, which Bud keeps muttering about as < he drives dementedly around looking for cars to grab, applicable to all the issues one encounters in this cockeyed world? Or is Bud just the most colorfully paranoid marble in the bagful that Writer-Director Alex Cox has rolling around his movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Quartet of Cult Objects | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...GRAB-BAG: Also on the council's agenda this spring are a number of perennial issues, discussion of which may not bring about any major reports or proposals. Among them: the topics of shuttle bus and escort service; a central student center; the educational role of the Houses; sexual harassment; dining services; and the academic calendar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Faces a Full Agenda | 1/30/1985 | See Source »

...reason for the spin-off spree is that many conglomerates have taken a beating in the stock market. Investors are increasingly disillusioned with the notion that a single management can successfully handle a grab bag of companies. Observes Norman Berg, a professor at Harvard Business School: "In the 1960s and 1970s, the stock market favored growth by acquisition. Now the liquidation value of companies is thought to be greater than the sum of their parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Incredible Shrinking Giant | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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