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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Thus far, the defense against Harvard is to wait for the offense to stop itself. Harvard been extra-charitable to its opponents this season, ranking 117th in 1-AA with a minus-9 turnover margin. The Crimson turned the ball over five times last week--and two of those were returned for scores...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ailing Football Needs Win at Princeton to Break Ivy Slide | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...Punts, and Other Things to Avoid: Morris' mistake started off a day special-teams probably want to forget. For one thing, Morris never returned another punt. In fact, nobody did. Lehigh punted a total of six times during the game, and the only punt touched was Morris' "return" of minus-3 yards...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Notebook: Miscues and Mistakes | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...tell you about my opponent's plan. His plan calls for 14 trillion minus 7 in just six years. And no lockbox. Even worse, under my opponent's plan, 81% of all seniors. And the square root of 54 whatsoever. In my view, that is totally inadequate. It's not a good plan. We can do better. I wouldn't even call his plan a plan. I'd call it a fuzzy plan. Or no plan at all, because just six years from now is six years away. The American people are tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: My Plan's Better Than Your Plan | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

Here's how it would work if, for example, Pullman issued $100 million worth of King bonds. The money raised, minus commissions, would go directly to the fright master himself in the form of a loan. That means, Mr. King, that it won't be taxable income. Investors who buy the bonds would get the principal back over about 10 years, plus perhaps 8% annual interest, from King's royalties. Need references, Mr. King? In the past three years, Pullman Inc. has announced deals involving more than $200 million worth of bonds secured by the works of not only that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creative Bonds: Banking On The Stars | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...draws an unclear distinction between "Social Security minus" and "retirement security plus...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Politics and Potables | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

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