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...stepped in for forward Bill Walker, who had picked up two quick fouls, and nailed a three-pointer from the right side to up the Holy Cross advantage to 15-6. Boyle's baseline jumper and two foul shots gave the Crusaders a 23-9 lead. After this initial onslaught, Harvard never got closer than four points...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Holy Cross Streaks By Cagers | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...Burke concluded the Crimson's first-period onslaught, stringing passes with Scott Barringer to make the score...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Move Into First Place With 8-1 Demolition of Green | 11/28/1990 | See Source »

...producers of this mountain of missives call it direct mail or mail order. The U.S. Postal Service refers to the onslaught as "bulk business mail." But to most people the deluge of material that descends on them each year is just plain junk mail, a typically American sobriquet that recognizes its vast and disorderly variety, its cheeky aggressiveness and its easy ability to raise hackles. Whatever its name, it is an extraordinary by-product of democratic civilization. Catalogs, catalogs, catalogs. Political flyers. Charitable solicitations. Environmental entreaties (on recycled paper, naturally). Sweepstakes packets. Magazine subscription offers. Investment brochures. Anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Direct Mail: Read This!!!!!!!! | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Steve Flomenhoft continued the onslaught six minutes later, netting a goal to put the Crimson up 3-2. Ted Drury scooped up a loose puck to the left of Chretian and fed a cutting Flomenhoft at the top of the circle. The sophomore center one-timed it past the Cadet goalie, and the hosts found themselves saddled with a deficit they couldn't make...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: Third-Period Rally Elevates Icemen | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Many researchers complain that the billion-dollar federal onslaught on AIDS has also underrepresented women. At a time when women are the fastest-growing group afflicted by AIDS, there are troubling uncertainties about whether treatments or the disease itself are affecting women differently from men. Some studies, for example, have suggested that women with the virus die more * quickly than men, and from a somewhat different range of opportunistic infections. "Drugs are developed with incomplete data on metabolic differences between the sexes," charges Congressman Henry Waxman, a major advocate for women's health. "This is not a question of affirmative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self & Society: Medicine A Perilous Gap | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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