Word: part
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the problem was the ability of the Judges' 3-2 zone defense to deny the ball into Ron Mitchell and Peter Condakes in the paint, forcing the Crimson to settle for outside shots on the wings. The Crimson, shooting 32 percent from the field in the first half, didn't have a chance...
...seemed appreciative of the time and effort on the part of the students," Donziger said, "and...he did seem surprised that there were so many letters. We felt like the dean demonstrated remorse over these comments as he did in earlier over comments he made in national publications...
...This whole year many students have had differences with the dean that persist in large part due to his inability to deal with student concerns." he said. "When we meet with him, we like him. He's a person we can talk to...but a lot of students think that doesn't mean much unless down the road it translates into real results...
...hours, the drama played out on the world's television screens, and for a while it seemed as if it would provoke direct U.S. military intervention in El Salvador's ugly, decade-old civil war. Twelve Green Berets from Fort Bragg, N.C., part of a U.S. advisory team in El Salvador, were holed up on the fourth floor of the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador's wealthy Escalon district, while about 20 heavily armed young guerrillas, who had seemingly blundered into the hotel, roamed the floors above and below them...
...there was no shoot-out. Instead, as part of an agreement brokered by the Roman Catholic Church, the guerrillas slipped away, and the U.S. soldiers, using journalists as a shield, ran from the hotel to waiting military vehicles. But so alarming was the event that President George Bush, acutely mindful that he had been seen to be dithering during October's aborted coup in Panama, quickly convened a meeting of a National Security Council emergency group and ordered a small contingent of the supersecret Delta Force into San Salvador. At one point Bush even made the embarrassing claim that...