Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Baker suddenly. "The illegals have been by. They come through here and at other spots on their way in. If we don't get a handle on Third World debt, we'll be overrun by Mexicans coming here to work. It's got to be one of our main priorities . . . Bill Bradley and I disagree about how to deal with the debt problem. He wants to force the banks to restructure debt. I say that's probably unconstitutional, and even if it isn't, the only way we can do things like that is through voluntary negotiation. But Bradley...
...point I was a little worried about having my main character, Sherman McCoy, losing $6 million for his firm in about 15 minutes. I thought, "Well, this is fiction. I'll go ahead and do it." My typewriter had hardly stopped moving before I picked up the New York Times, and there on Page One was an account of a young investment banker, about the same age as my character, 38, who lost $250 million for his firm in a week. I felt like Alice in Wonderland, running as hard as I can to stay in the same place...
Saturday, the wrestling team hopped over to Princeton for another meet, but this time only went one-for-three. Princeton, the Crimson's main rival, barely nipped Harvard...
...will attempt to defend its Easterns title the following weekend at Penn St. Cornell Coach Joe Lucia thinks this goal can be attained. "It should be a great meet, Lucia said. "I hope Harvard beats the scholarship schools and that the title stays in the league." As usual, the main competition will come from Pittsburgh and Penn State. This year, the raucous fans of the Nittany Lions should make it that much tougher for Harvard..."We're favored to win, but it will be tough to overcome the Penn State fans," Hutchinson admitted. Ivy League Women's Champions 1983 Brown...
...high-voltage power station right below a Buddhist temple. Engineers are confident that they can create enormous underground structures with little danger of cave-ins. They point to such construction breakthroughs as the 33.5-mile-long Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater corridor, which connects Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north...