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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excited because I had a couple of chances in overtime, but I didn't connect on them," Donato said. "The goalie played a really good game so it was just a matter of keep on shooting and hope one of them makes its way through...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: An A-Okay Power Play | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...into middle-class entitlement programs like Social Security and farm subsidies (which Bush has promised to protect). As President, Bush will also face urgent new multibillion-dollar spending requirements to salvage the bankrupt savings and loan industry and rebuild the nation's defective nuclear-fuels plants. As a practical matter, his "kinder, gentler" promises for better funding of child care, national parks and college-tuition programs may have to wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Markets Vote | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...remembering Kennedy on the day he was slain, rather than on the anniversary of his birth, his memory becomes jaundiced. No matter how much attention is paid to his achievements in public life, these accomplishments seem less significant when viewed in the ominous shadow of his assasination. It is like watching a play of his life with a chorus sitting in the rear of the stage whispering "if only he had lived, if only he had lived..." Unfortunately, Kennedy's death, now a national obsession, has become the most memorable accomplishment of his life...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Putting It to Rest | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

Kosh seems comfortable in her new role. It's just a matter of "switching around," Kosh says. "I have to get on ball with my shots...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Kosh Hopes to be the Driving Force for W. Cagers | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...that matter, what good do they do their members? Besides, of course, the networking thing that people only talk about in hushed tones, not a whole lot. With rare exceptions, no one lives in these houses. At least fraternities at other schools provide their constituents with often much-needed living space. And at least fraternities do charitable work and raise money for good causes on occasion. Final clubs don't do this...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Liquor, Cocaine, Pot, Ecstasy and Sexism | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

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