Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson reached the final with a 3-0 drubbing of Princeton in a semifinal match yesterday afternoon. The Tigers beat Harvard in the last two Ivy League Championships, but the New Jersey spikers appeared outmatched yesterday...
...went into effect last week, put the U.S. Government and a handful of states on a collision course. The state legislature of Connecticut, which has outlawed tandem trailers on all roads since 1949, voted to continue its ban, thus becoming the first state to defy the new law. New Jersey's Governor Thomas Kean is sued an order limiting the giant rigs to interstate highways and two other major roads and proscribing them from roads the new federal law had opened up. By week's end Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and South Carolina pointedly announced that state troopers...
Some recalcitrant states, in reply, charged that DOT was sloppy in selecting the routes for the interim list. According to the New Jersey transportation department, DOT opened to 40-ton trucks a portion of Route 9 in the state that includes a bridge currently posted with a twelve-ton weight limit. The designations will also permit bigger trucks to rumble through the traffic-clogged streets of New York City, Philadelphia, Trenton and other metropolitan areas on their way to delivery terminals...
...wealthy sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf are almost literally swimming in the gooey, black liquid. Since March, three damaged Iranian wells have been spewing some 7,000 bbl. a day of crude into the waters of the gulf, producing an oil slick that is roughly the size of New Jersey and that may rank as the second largest in history.* Much of the menacing sludge rests just below the surface of the gulf's usually crystalline waters, but it is betrayed by a bluish sheen that can be seen easily from the air. Last week, as the vast slick...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Herschel Walker, 21, University of Georgia Bulldog turned multimillion-dollar New Jersey General; and Cynthia DeAngelis, 21, Georgia business major; both for the first time; on March 31, in Bloomingdale, NJ. Three days after the wedding Walker rushed for 177 yds. and three touchdowns (vs. 261 yds. in four previous pro games), leading the way to a 35-21 win, the Generals' first, over the Arizona Wranglers...