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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Janney's heroics gave the Olympians victory number 13 out of 25 games on their 60-game U.S. tour. The tour, which has included dates with both professional and college teams, will end in February, just prior to the start of the Olympics in Calgary, Alberta...
...dance marathon will take place this year on February 20. It will last for twelve hours and culminate in a University-wide party. The dancers, usually numbering about 100, solicit pledges prior to the marathon. The student raising the most money wins a free vacation...
...expense of pure ability and potential. Once again, the TSAT offers a solution. Since there will be no way to prepare for the TSAT (forget what Stanley Kaplan says), all scholars are on equal footing, regardless of the breadth of their knowledge; this standardized test assumes no prior familiarity with any specific subject, emphasizing instead innate reasoning ability, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and logical relationships...
Nearby, other fire fighters with faces like chimney sweeps exchange tales of close calls and prior battles. Their constant coughing sounds like a tuberculosis ward. As they talk, each fire takes on its own mischievous personality, some quick and cagey, others plodding and stubborn. Despite the laughter, some fire fighters appear homesick. The constant, tortuous line at the only two available pay phones is full of long faces. After waiting for 2 1/2 hrs. to call his wife, one man is greeted by an answering machine, and his howls echo through the smoke as he storms back to his tent...
...building in which the speech was to be held had been sealed off and secured by the police several hours prior to the event...