Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...track, Harvard won the 400 meter women's relay in 48.64 seconds and took first in the women's mile relay with a time...
Northeastern beat the Harvard men's team during the indoor season, and the Crimson aimed to settle the score. Going into the final event, Harvard carried a narrow one-point lead. The Harvard men had nine first places going into the mile relay, and needed one more win to finish...
...competition went down to the wire, leaving the last event, the mile relay, to decide which team would be the victor...
Privately, however, the factions around the two leaders do not see exactly eye to eye. Zhao envisions the 11,200-mile coast as a powerful economic engine to which the backward interior provinces can eventually hitch themselves and thus be pulled into the 21st century. The more conservative party leaders who support Li caution that the increasingly well-off coastal economies could create instability. But only the speed of the reforms is being questioned, not their necessity. Last week State Councilor Song Ping proposed recombining 14 existing ministries and commissions into ten new ones. If adopted, the proposal would...
...second day of Losar, the Tibetan New Year, the man who is a living Buddha to roughly 14 million people gives a public audience. By 8 a.m. the line of petitioners stretches for half a mile along the winding mountain road outside his airy bungalow -- leathery mountain men in gaucho hats, long-haired Westerners, little girls in their prettiest silks, all the 6,000 residents of the village and thousands more. Later, 30 dusty visitors just out of Tibet crowd inside and, as they set eyes on their exiled leader for the first time in almost three decades, fill...