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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seventh is the highest Harvard has been able to finish in the Easterns in recent years, despite improving enough to dominate all of its New England rivals except Brown. From this follows the fifth-year goal of Hafferty's Five Year Plan--the Crimson must raise its level of play to match that of Eastern powers Army, Brown, Arkansas, Iona, Bucknell and Navy...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: In the Final Year of the Five-Year Plan | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Administrative reorganization called for in the contract includes a new grievance procedure and a vaguely worded statement that says employee "problems will be discussed on a local level in problem-solving teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor's Odd Couple Forges a Contract Compromise | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...this world of the endless campaign, pretty soon no candidate anywhere will ever again risk uttering an impromptu thought in public. For a hefty fee, U.S. advisers will market-test every word and gesture to achieve the proper level of dynamic blandness. And since media consultants tend to recycle endlessly any technique that works, it is easy to envision future political spots that begin, "It's morning again in Poland." But equally disturbing is the way that during the 1980s, the political handlers have wrung the last droplets of spontaneity out of U.S. politics, as passion and ideology have become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: America's Dubious Export | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...over the years never again set foot on a major league diamond, Rose insisted he would be back, perhaps as early as next year. A blue-collar guy from western Cincinnati who played baseball with the enthusiasm of a seven-year-old on the field -- and exhibited the same level of maturity off -- Rose may actually believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charlie Hustle's Final Play: Pete Rose | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...some 148 divisions -- more than 3 million men -- to attack in three main drives along a 1,000-mile front. One army group would strike northward, toward Leningrad; another army group from the Warsaw area would move north of the Pripet Marshes toward Moscow, which Hitler planned to level and leave forever uninhabitable; the southernmost group, from Rumania, would storm across the Ukraine toward Kiev and Stalingrad. "Operation Barbarossa" would smash Russia within six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Years | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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