Word: low
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stripes grimly fended off a rogue challenge for the jug, outsailing New Zealand in a pair of yawners off San Diego. Nearly the only exciting development was the fact that Stars & Stripes flew sponsors' logos, a Cup first. One of them, Diet Pepsi, was an apt choice for a low-calorie affair that was an embarrassing mismatch...
...founders, who severed East Pakistan's links with West Pakistan after a violent upheaval in 1971 and established it as a separate nation, Bangladesh will always be "Golden Bengal." In reality, however, the low-lying delta country, laced and often lashed by three great river systems, is still a "basket case," the cruel epithet thrust upon it at the time of its independence. A calamitous series of floods, cyclones and war-inflicted suffering have made it a focus of international concern from its inception...
...hand, Holt beat Bulger by a count of better than three to one in the South End and Back Bay, but an average turnout that may have been as low as 10 percent cost Holt the necessary lead, according to AI Glass, Holt's volunteer coordinator...
Grocery stores ran low on bottled water, batteries, canned tuna and bread as people laid in supplies. Homeowners covered windows and doors with plywood and shatter-proofing hurricane tape. Offshore oil workers left their rigs in the Gulf of Mexico...
Last year, the Harvard football team performed a magic trick. Picked to finish among the league low-lifes, the Crimson captured the Ivy League title...