Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not look very lively, after the Teamsters won wage-and-benefit increases that stand to amount to 31%% over three years. Naturally, the 1.5 million member U.A.W. would like to match the Teamsters' sweet deal. Fraser contends that the President's guidelines restrain wages while allowing prices and profits to rise. Angered by the Government's intervention in the Teamsters' negotiations, he warned against interference by Carter's arbiters during the U.A.W. talks. Said Fraser: "My advice is that they should stay the hell away and let us settle with the auto companies by ourselves. They will...
...Yale match was supposed to be close. It wasn't. In fact, it took Harvard only one hour and 38 minutes to secure the first five singles battles in straight sets and thus wrap-up the match...
Even though Ochs couldn't match Dylan's record sales, Ochs managed to gain public and critical acceptance beyond the confines of the Village. But somewhere along the line Eliot had to justify his contention that Ochs took the sixties along with him when he went. The last two hundred pages document Ochs' rise to the post of "the Movement's poet revolutionary," and his fall through the long, long Nixon years. The only problem is that his rise was so pitifully short. Ochs had just about three years from his first major benefit at a Berkely anti-war teach...
Andy Chaikovsky faced old rival Billy Brady, who beat him in the same match two years ago. Saturday it was Chaikovsky's turn. He claimed the first set, 6-3, then traded games to 4-4 in the second set. Brady netted an easy forehand volley at 3-3 of the next game to give Chaikovsky the break he needed...
Scott Walker, at number three, had perhaps the toughest match. After a tentative start against Yale captain Brad Dressler, Walker began to hit out towards the end of a 7-6 first set. He directed much of his attack at Dressler's weak, two-handed backhand. Walker seemed to be sailing smoothly towards a straight-set victory after apparently breaking Dressler's serve to move up, 5-3, in the second...