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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performance is often crucial to his team's performance--Scott Fusco. And the skaters from East Lansing. Mich, have one player who more than any other, has carried his team in its drive to the NCAA quarterfinals whom the younger Fusco will have to vanquish it Harvard is to prevail this weekend...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: An East-West Showdown at Bright | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

...response to these atrocities, the world bellowed a thunderous silence Memory, it seems, is blessedly short-lived. That the general public scarcely recognizes these horrors attests to a frightfully pervasive apathy and myopia where terror and outrage ought to prevail...

Author: By Ellen B. Resnick, | Title: Israel's Self-Judgement | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...free to follow in the path of the blind and the silent, but courageously embraced her moral code in pursuit of restored honor. Incurring no world credit but instead, shallow condemnations, the country rests with cleared conscience, but the memory of the guilt and the commitment to just statehood prevail...

Author: By Ellen B. Resnick, | Title: Israel's Self-Judgement | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...Princeton does prevail, the Crimson could still triumph in the singles competition. Boyum is ranked number one in the competition. He's still sailing high after winning the prestigious Cowles Cup earlier in the season for which he had to beat teammate Jernigan in the finals to win. Jernigan and Boyum have been switching back and forth in the one and two positions, though Boyum has kept a firm grasp for the past three weeks...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: The Team to Beat | 2/18/1983 | See Source »

...this, Aspen needs to convince itself that its old ways will no longer work. "Greed dominates the town. There was an arrogance toward tourists that used to prevail," said Thomas Richardson, the former president of the Aspen Skiing Corp. "People put their heads in the sand and said, 'We're the best.' Suddenly, we're not No. 1 any more. Now Aspen has a reputation as a rip-off community." The town's troubles are not likely to lead to a bust similar to the one Aspen experienced after Congress repealed the Sherman Silver-Purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill Slope | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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