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...months of rioting cast a pall on Christian celebrations of Easter...
...anticipation of this weekend's home games against Cornell (Friday) and Colgate (Saturday) could not lift the pall that befell the Crimson locker room last night. Losing is hard. Losing again and again--as Harvard has at Boston Garden in the Beanpot--makes you want put a truck-full of dynamite under the venerable structure...
Some Western analysts, however, had growing doubts about whether delinkage and the zero option would necessarily be an unmitigated blessing. A veteran intelligence official cast a pall over an interagency meeting in February by administering what he called a "heavy dose of reality therapy." Consider, he said, the danger posed by a new Soviet ICBM -- the SS-25, a mobile, three- stage, intercontinental version of the two-stage, intermediate-range SS-20. "Not a single one of the SS-20s that Gorbachev will be giving up can hit the U.S., and not a single SS-25 is affected...
Although they were not surprised by any of the information or conclusions of the report, the professors interviewed said it could cast a pall over the remainder of the President's term...
...Monday, but in a week of wild slides and surges finally closed with a gain of .1%. In London the Financial Times index tumbled 6% on the opening day of trading but struggled back and ended the week with a loss of 2%. The continued decline cast a pall over the Conservative government's latest sell-off of state-owned enterprises. Mexico's market, though small by comparison, fell drastically, as investors watched fearfully for signs of a recession in the U.S., the biggest purchaser of Mexico's vital exports...