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...number-one position in Division I-AA and a reputation for unholy sportsmanship into today's Crimson-Crusader showdown in Worcester. The Cross likes to get opponents down and then make them eat mud. The Cross is not content to merely put you on the ropes. It wants to knock you out of the ring. And then spit...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Unholy Crusaders | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

Harvard outplayed the Bruins in the secondhalf, taking 10 shots to Brown's two.Unfortunately, the Crimson couldn't knock any byBruin goalie Kathy Tarnoff...

Author: By Karen Serieka, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Brown Shocks Women Booters, 1-0; Lightning Strikes Crimson--Again | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Volume for the week was inconceivably greater than ever before, totaling 2.3 billion shares on the Big Board; the four heaviest trading days in New York exchange history all occurred last week. The turnover strained the exchange's computer network to the limit, and the Big Board decided to knock off trading two hours early on Friday and this Monday and Tuesday to allow exhausted brokers time to catch up on their paperwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Panic Grips The Globe | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...pour: "Hop-Frog," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Raven" and "The Bells," in any good anthology, Edgar Allen Poe. By the Master of Disaster, the Big Daddy of Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...bankruptcy and reorganization. The company would then become the first U.S. utility to succumb financially to the nuclear-plant cost overruns and environmental battles that have plagued dozens of plants across the country. Even the $2.25 billion default of the Washington Public Power Supply System in 1983 failed to knock out any utilities, largely because WPPSS was a consortium in which the financial burden was shared by 16 companies. But the weight of Seabrook falls hard on Public Service, which owns 35.6% of the plant and is prohibited under New Hampshire law from charging customers for the inoperative plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Are in a Heap of Trouble | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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