Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sommer's was no small threat. Tourists bring $28 billion a year into the state, and half of Miami's tourists are foreigners. City boosters, who do not want Miami listed with current travel-agency pariahs like Egypt and Northern Ireland, announced improved highway signs and street lighting and faster phasing out of specially marked rental-car license plates that say "easy prey" to thugs. After meeting with Governor Lawton Chiles, Sommer decided to forgo his travel advisory. Two suspects were named in Jensen's murder. Her widower Christian seemed glad of this, but noted that in Germany, normally, "when...
This season's new Ivy League structure split the Ancient Eight into a Red Rolfe (northern) and a Lou Gehrig (southern) Division, so Harvard plays each squad in the northern division four times while it plays the southern teams only twice...
Unfortunately, this new system actually works to Harvard's disadvantage because Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth--three of the league's top teams--join Harvard in the northern division and make for very competitive play...
...Weekend Games: Harvard has completed its play against the Lou Gehrig (southern) division and now must face Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth four times each the rest of the way. The Bulldogs (15-3, 6-0 Ivy) lead the Red Rolfe (northern) division by two games over Harvard and Dartmouth (9-6, 4-2 Ivy) and 4.5 games over Brown...
...SETTING WAS MAJESTIC: A city of gleaming skyscrapers backed by magnificent snow-capped mountains, a Mediterranean-style villa perched on a splendid promontory overlooking the northern Pacific. The results of the weekend summit meeting in Vancouver, Canada, were inevitably less grandiose. Indeed, Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin hardly aimed at any readily measurable result. Dollars and cents may have been the language of discourse, but the effect was largely symbolic: to demonstrate that Yeltsin still has firm American support in his hour of trial, that Clinton is not quite an uninterested novice in foreign affairs and that the West...