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Dates: during 1970-1979
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General Dynamics executives contend that they can fulfill the contract only at a heavy loss because the Navy kept changing its mind about what it wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Cash or No Subs | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Irish writers are silkworms in spinning words. They have an abiding sense of the past and have never really lost the oral tradition that makes them grand tellers of tales. The psychology of their land is that of loss, but the loss is borne with salty wit and exuberantly wild fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Urn of Memory | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Penn did defeat Harvard last season, breaking the Crimson's 24-race, four-year victory streak by one-tenth of a second in the Adams Cup race here in May. However, Harvard avenged the loss at the Eastern Sprints in Princeton only one week later, stroking to victory by one length in the varsity finals...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Parker's Young Men Go West for Crew Classic Head for San Diego Opener | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

...starboard side, the Crimson will be trying to replace 1977 graduates John Brock and John White. Gardiner admitted yesterday, "John Brock was a really immense guy. You're going to feel his loss...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Parker's Young Men Go West for Crew Classic Head for San Diego Opener | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

...tremendous cultural and historical loss for the City, and this vacation is your last chance to visit the old legend. I mean this is it, the clearance sale, the closeout, the end of the affair. No more movie/stage spectacles. It's now or never. The last double bill, which will run through April 12, is "Crossed Swords," starring Rex Harrison, a film based on Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper," and the last Great Easter Show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rockettes' Last Gleaming | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

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