Word: northeast
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...NCAA will invite 16 teams to its post-season tournament, and probably at least two will be from the Northeast. The third-ranked University of Connecticut holds a lock on one of those tournament bids, leaving UMass. Harvard and Springfield to light for the remainder. The tournament selection process is not connected with the national poll. and the selection committee is free to invite any 16 teams...
...with train ridership rebounding as a result of rising gasoline prices and Amtrak's new Northeast-corridor service, the Interior Department agreed to turn the building over to the Department of Transportation, which wanted to turn it back into a train station. By then, however, inertia had set in. Bills to transfer control died in committee. Finally last year, Congress passed a bill, as Moynihan put it, "to return the building to its use before Congress began fumbling with it." It authorizes the Government to spend $69 million more to undo what it did. Another $9 million has been...
...necessity for the Crimson, as it preserved the stickwomen's chances of gaining one of two probable NCAA tournament berths for the Northeast. Having fallen to Connecticut earlier in the season, Harvard needed at least a tie yesterday to stay in the running for second best in the region...
...sorry that "hard times" have come to Texas [Sept. 27]. Ironically, I recall a hit record of 1972-73 called Freeze a Yankee that sang the praises of Texans and Arabs who were squeezing the Northeast by cutting off oil supplies. I can still hear the whoops and hollers of Texans who thought it screamingly funny that those damyankees were getting theirs...
Choi said the event "brings a lot of contact among Asian college students throughout the Northeast. "Friendships fostered by the contact also encourage the students to strengthen their links of cultural awareness, he added...