Word: marked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race marked this season's third meeting between Harvard's Newnham and Sullivan and Princeton's star, Lynn Jennings. Jennings had defeated both Crimson harriers in earlier duels at the Big Three meet and at last week's Eastern Championships. Saturday she established a fast pace early, and by the two-mile mark, held a seemingly insurmountable lead...
...Mark Collins...
...speculators who had been dumping dollars in the conviction that Washington would do nothing much to stop the slide scrambled to buy back bucks. In chaotic trading on Wednesday, the dollar rose 5% against the Japanese yen, 7% against the West German mark and 7.5% against the Swiss franc. Gold, which speculators buy when the dollar is sick and sell when they think it may recover, fell a startling $23 an ounce by the end of the week...
...space mark for the Soviets
Besides eclipsing the mark of 96 days set earlier this year by two other cosmonauts aboard the same Salyut 6 space station (the U.S. record is 84 days in orbit, set by a Skylab crew in 1974), Kovalenok, a Soviet air force colonel, and Ivanchenkov, his flight engineer, chalked up other feats. They played host to two visiting ships, one carrying an East German, the other a Polish cosmonaut. Resupplied three times by remote-controlled ferry craft, they conducted extensive observations of both the heavens and earth, and performed such experiments as growing crystals for electronic components and testing...