Word: pit
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Harvard, the most improved team in the Ivies (it had a 7-12 mark last year), holds the second seed, and the other first-round bye. The first-round matchups, set for Friday, pit third-seeded Cornell versus Brown, and Dartmouth against Yale. The Crimson will play a semifinal contest at 12:30 pm. at Thompson Arena Saturday, and a Sunday 3 p.m. final (or 11:30 a.m. consolation game...
...fluttering tailspin-reaching bottom at a Dickensian snake pit where she was gang-raped by drunken G.I.s and subjected to every form of torture the psychiatric Establishment could devise, from shock treatment to massive doses of mind-bending drugs and, quite possibly, a transorbital lobotomy-is the stuff nightmares and film biographies are made of. Now a company of film makers is attempting just that: Frances, a $10 million movie starring Jessica Lange as the doomed actress and Kim Stanley as her wildly eccentric mother Lillian...
...plan "a con job, a snare and a delusion, a steal by the Feds," adding, "I don't think he understands the impact of what he is doing." New York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey contended that the New Federalism is really "a new feudalism," which will pit states against each other and cities against their state capitals as all struggle anew for a fair share of dwindling federal funds or jockey to protect their own economic interests. In the same vein, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown of California warned that the 50 states might become "competing colonies." West...
...seeking an infusion of $70 million in government export loans, but negotiations between the firm and the tightfisted Conservative administration of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have erupted into a public game of chicken. Said a Thatcher spokesman last week: "This government does not regard De Lorean as a bottomless pit. You can't keep throwing good money after bad." De Lorean quickly reminded officials that his firm provides 2,600 jobs in a violence-prone and depressed section of Northern Ireland, where few corporations have ventured...
...ZOMO units broke up most of the demonstrations that took place after Jaruzelski imposed martial law. In Gdansk they burst into the Lenin shipyards to end a sit-in by the workers who had launched the independent Solidarity trade union in August 1980. When coal miners in the Wujek pit near the Silesian city of Katowice resisted martial law, it was the members of ZOMO who opened fire. The government admits that eight miners were killed in the incident. ZOMO forces reportedly attacked even doctors and nurses who had arrived to take wounded miners to the hospital. When the goon...