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...Crimson will be looking to knock offPrinceton and Yale April 29 in an attempt tocapture the Goldthwait Cup (the H-Y-P title) forthe first time since 1980. Harvard will alsofaceoff against Navy on the Charles, whiletravelling to row against Penn and Cornell April 8and Navy April...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Oarsmen Look For Fifth National Championship in the 1980s | 3/17/1989 | See Source »

...Data General may have started a price war by introducing a workstation for $7,450, far less than the typical $20,000 $ cost. Meanwhile, industry giants IBM and Digital Equipment were trying to rev up interest in their latest models. All these competitors are trying to knock off Sun Microsystems, the clear leader in the workstation business. Launched only in 1982, the Mountain View, Calif., firm has become a billion-dollar company on the strength of the new machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Where The Action Is | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Many contemporary critics make "rather extraordinary assumptions" that improving the curricula of our schools will enable us to "knock out poverty, compete with the Japanese, [and] beat the Russians," Cremin said. Yet this mode of thinking "condemns [the schools] to failure before they even start;" we must instead debate "what we're going to ask our schools to do, realistically," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof Examines U.S. Education | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

Look at what happened to Lewis. He won four gold medals in 1984, but at the age of 27, Lewis lost in the 200 meters in Seoul to a 22-year-old runner by the name of Joe Deloach. There is always someone to knock...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Flipping for FloJo | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

...going to get our people to knock on doors all during the day today and tonight and tomorrow morning," Sawyer said during a campaign stop at a West Side high school, one of at least 10 campaign events during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Race for Mayor of Chicago Tightens | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

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