Word: hosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's track team finished its season in the same way it started it--losing big. In the Crimson's final outdoor meet this year, the host Northeastern Huskies crushed Harvard, 104-50, on Saturday...
...discovery, most scientists believe, could lead to incredible savings in energy; trains that speed across the countryside at hundreds of miles per hour on a cushion of magnetism; practical electric cars; powerful, yet smaller computers and particle accelerators; safer reactors operating on nuclear fusion rather than fission and a host of other rewards still undreamed of. There might even be benefits for the Strategic Defense Initiative, which could draw on efficient, superconductor power sources for its space-based weapons...
...remain far too icy for him to expect an invitation. Washington has not even decided whether Cuba's athletes will be allowed to travel to Indianapolis on a Cuban airliner, which would technically violate a 27-year-old U.S. boycott on commerce with Havana. However, Castro knows that, as host of the games in 1991, Cuba will be in a position to handle any protocol complaints with a certain reciprocity...
...jury in Fort Smith, Ark.; one of them, plus four other men, was also charged with plotting to murder a federal judge and an FBI agent. Three of the Fort Smith defendants and a woman were separately indicted by a grand jury in Denver for depriving Radio Talk Show Host Alan Berg of his civil rights -- by machine-gunning him to death...
Rotisserians are drawn, as the cliche goes, from all walks of life. Iowa Congressman Fred Grandy, who played Gopher Smith on the TV show The Love Boat, is a player; so are former Major League Pitcher Jim Kaat and Today-show Host Bryant Gumbel. The American Dreams, the second oldest league in existence and the first to play the game with American League ballplayers, consists mostly of New York City journalists and writers. Tony Lukas of the Palukas has won Pulitzers both for his reporting for the New York Times and for his recent book on Boston race relations, Common...