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...four top scorers from last year's NCAA runners-up no longer wearing Crimson jerseys, Coach Bill Cleary's crew has struggled to get three goals per game. Cleary's still looking for the guy who took the batteries to the Harvard power play, which had converted on lever than one in 10 opportunities before Saturday...

Author: By Michael D. Knobler, | Title: Battle of the Underdogs | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...American voter standing in the voting booth on a November day in 1984. You are concerned about the foreign policy direction this country has taken over the last four years. The choice before you is a simple one: Reagan or someone else. Which lever do you pull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bad Signals | 12/8/1983 | See Source »

...people, though it was elected by a slim margin. Administration officials also said that the half-million protestors in Central Park last year would not impact its nuclear arms policy, holding that elections are when we make choices. Are we then to be mute, wide-eyed observers, pulling a lever every four years...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: Breaking the Silence | 11/29/1983 | See Source »

From these roots can be traced Japan's famous policy of "friends, and especially traders, with everyone." Commerce is almost always the driving impetus behind Japanese foreign policy. Thus, as Japan's largest customer, the U.S. has an additional lever in negotiations beyond our special defense relationship. Yet Japanese real defense spending stands at only 9 percent of its Gross National Product compared to five to six percent...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: On the Defensive | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...White House is mindful of the potential 1984 election benefits of progress in arms control. But it insists that the MX is an essential bargaining lever to achieve that goal. Still, the growing congressional pressure is sure to widen the already existing split between the Administration's moderates, who favor an arms-control agreement in part to help re-elect Reagan, and its hardliners, who remain deeply suspicious that the Soviets will ever negotiate seriously. The key defense appropriations votes in the Senate could come very close to the scheduled resumption of the START talks in early October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Carrots and Sticks | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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