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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick glance at the ECAC goaltending leaders shows Vermont's Tom Draper in second with a 2.85 goals-against average...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Year Later, the Tables Are Turned | 2/20/1986 | See Source »

...been located. Some photo analysts contend that what appears to be parts of the shuttle can be detected emerging from the catastrophic fireball just after the blast (see photo). The official reticence was understandable. Any such speculation would raise the grim possibility that death was not as mercifully quick for the stricken astronauts as has been widely assumed. Still, however painful the results, the search for all such evidence has to be pursued if the mystery of Challenger's demise is to be solved and the risk of future tragedies minimized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cold Soak, a Plume, a Fireball | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...used "in providing care for the needy" of the county where she and her late husband had lived since 1935. There was some irony in the fact that the county involved happened to be California's Marin, one of the wealthiest in the nation. Local officials, however, were quick to point out that pockets of deserving poverty did exist amid Marin's hot-tubbed sybaritism. But then the trust's sole asset, a 7% stake in the obscure Belridge Oil Co., was gobbled up by Shell Oil Co. for a whopping $260 million, and even some Marinites began to wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charity: Down and Out in Marin County | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...also said defense contractors should be required to use production methods that permit quick transitions to non-military production, to prevent defense cuts from causing the widespread layoffs that he said make them unpopular in Congress...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Students Host Bachrach; State Sen. Presents Views | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

...Quick administrative turnover and serious criticism from both student and faculty groups have characterized the five-year tenure of Dartmouth's President David T. McLaughlin...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Colt, | Title: The Crumbling Hierarchy | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

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