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Today's Harvard-Yale varsity clash will grab all the attention, but the two schools' freshman teams battled it out yesterday on mudsoaked turf at Soldiers Field...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Bulldog Frosh Blank Crimson Counterparts, 27-0; Junior Varsity Sqauds Battle to Scoreless Tie | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

While many small, independent shops are still thriving because consumer demand continues to grow, the large national chains have started to grab most of the new business. National Video of Portland, Ore., which opened its first outlet in 1981, has 776 franchises in the U.S. and opens an average of 15 new shops every month. The convenience-store chain 7-Eleven plans to offer its MovieQuik rental club, which has no membership fee, in 7,000 of its 7,636 outlets by the end of the year. MovieQuik's feature attraction is speediness; because each member's account data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Video Merchants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Hotchkin knocked a shot from 20 feet out that bounded slowly toward the Princeton net. Gobillot reached down to grab the ball, but it bounced over his shoulders...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men Booters Thrash Princeton, 4-0; Harvard Remains Undefeated in Ivies | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

...when the executive branch starts to treat the Court as just another political institution and its Justices as mere politicians, we're in for a real power grab. Don't be fooled. The Reagan-Meese-Reynolds crew is trying to weaken the judiciary and to limit the scope of judicial review not because it objects to judicial review in principle, but because judicial review stands in the way of its agenda...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Unprecedented Attack | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

...After the play starts, they'd grab hold of me and show me what they thought of my audibles," he adds...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Where the Minors Are Better Than the Majors | 10/17/1986 | See Source »

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