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...order for Harvard to win the Ivy League title outright, the Crimson must win all of its remaining games (Yale, Brown, Dartmouth)--and Dartmouth must defeat Brown on Friday night...
...movie, cable-TV and Home Box Office operations to two Japanese companies, electronics maker Toshiba and C. Itoh, a trading company, for $1 billion. Luce says that while Ross wanted to bring foreign investors into operations that Time Warner would continue to control, Nicholas favored selling off assets outright...
...Harvard salvages a tie out of either contest (a common occurrence this year), the Crimson will be assured of at least a share of the title, and if Clarkson loses against Brown, Harvard wins outright...
...response to concerns of the Vatican, the Reagan Administration agreed to alter its foreign-aid program to comply with the church's teachings on birth control. According to William Wilson, the President's first ambassador to the Vatican, the State Department reluctantly agreed to an outright ban on the use of any U. S. aid funds by either countries or international health organizations for the promotion of birth control or abortion. As a result of this position, announced at the World Conference on Population in Mexico City in 1984, the U.S. withdrew funding from, among others, two of the world...
...also be shut out of the important May 5 primary in Ohio. Even if a new candidate were to file 30 seconds after the polls close in New Hampshire, he would have to win almost every last delegate from the states where he could still run to gain an outright majority. As a practical matter, he would have to collect large blocs of uncommitted delegates and those pledged to one of the five present candidates...