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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screens to pinpoint the hit or miss. Each pilot drops 28 bombs during the six-day contest. Two years ago, the top team triumphed over the runner-up by dropping a single bomb one yard closer. In theory, spring-loaded reflexes and microscopic eyes should make a winner. Pilots joke that proficiency in arcade video games helps too. But skill isn't everything. "Getting that little bitty death dot on that target isn't easy," says Anderson. "You might get bumped by turbulence or the cart ((bomb rack)) might be slow. The jets aren't perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nevada: A Rodeo for Throttle Jockeys | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...joke going around Grays is, `that says something about Radcliffe women on top'," said Borkenhagen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Win, Some Lose In Freshman Lottery | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...gets along with everyone, and it's easy to joke around with her," Keffer says. "She's also been a different coach since Jared was born. He was the one thing I felt was missing in her life...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Curing the Basketball Blues | 3/8/1988 | See Source »

...only did John F. Kennedy '40 barely win the nomination, his margin of victory in the general election was so small it has been alleged that he only won because of political chicanery by Daley's Chicago political machine. And our current president was best known as a joke in a Johnny Carson monologue before he managed to scale the White House walls on his second...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: The Myth of Being Presidential | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...design their own major is ignorance. Many members of the Harvard community, students and faculty alike, are not aware of the interdisciplinary option. At the beginning of last term, when one special concentrator looked for a departmental meeting within her house, she says she was met with a joke about being "special...

Author: By Anne F. Palmer, | Title: The Road Less Traveled By | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

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