Word: majority
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Harvard had dominated most of the play on Wesleyan's short field; it had controlled midfield for much of the game as Michael Smith, among others, played especially well; it had only one major defensive breakdown before the final score and Billy Blood had stalled that first-half Wesleyan thrust with a superlative diving save to his right; and it had slowly begun to open holes in the Wesleyan defense with long passes from John Sanacore and Smith. But the Crimson had not scored...
...from Israel, Iran has had its own problems recently. Last week a major earthquake devastated parts of that nation which was already in upheaval due to fighting between pro- and anti-government forces. Tonight the Center for Middle Eastern Studies is sponsoring a panel discussion on the crisis in Iran. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Boylston Auditorium...
Namibia--an arid land of little more than one million people--has emerged as a major Western supplier of a variety of scarce resources such as copper, silver, lead and diamonds. U.S.-owned mining operations alone account for more than 40 percent of the foreign investment in the territory. In the past three years, the West had embarked on a campaign to exploit Namibia's uranium resources, which represent an estimated five per cent of the total world supply. Overall, the rate of exploitation of Namibia's mineral wealth has accelerated in recent years, leading many Namibian nationalists to charge...
...course, proponents of the bill have been falling all over each other to extol its benefits since the President unveiled it as part of his National Energy Act in April, 1977. The Department of Energy, White House lobbyists, and senators like Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) have all taken a hand at trying to force the bill through Congress. They claim that higher prices will promote development of new gas sources, and allow producers to extract already-discovered gas which is currently too expensive to bring up from the ground. New gas supplies will replace imported...
Somoza said he unleashed his military forces on Esteli and three other major cities to save the nation from communism, which he claims is being imported by Cuban-trained Sandinista guerillas...