Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After losing to Brown 9-1 in the first game yesterday in Providence, R.I., the Harvard softball team managed to pull out a thrilling come-from-behind extra-inning 6-5 victory over the Bears to maintain its first-place standing in the Ivy League race...
...race for the 1988 Republican nomination, George Bush effectively eliminated Robert Dole from the race by using advertisements that accused Dole of flip-flopping on major issues. This criticism is equally applicable to the council. The council is guilty of political opportunism. Many council members claimed that they were not aware of the extent to which the military discriminated against homosexuals. Any witness to the debate surrounding the council's original call to reinstitute ROTC would be hard-pressed to find confirmation for such a claim...
...members now hold four of the council's nine seats. But the party hopes to capture a fifth in a race made particularly uncertain by the retirement of three long time incumbents. Two of these, David E. Sullivan and Saundra M. Graham, are CCA members, while the third, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, is a strong CCA ally on rent control...
Japan's quest to build the high-powered machines began in 1981, when the government arranged a $136 million supercomputer-research project. Three Japanese manufacturers -- Fujitsu, NEC and Hitachi -- account for 24% of the supercomputers sold to date. So far only U.S. and Japanese companies have entered the race. While Cray's machines still lead in worldwide sales, Japanese manufacturers may be pulling ahead by some measures of supercomputer performance, notably processing speed. Earlier this month NEC introduced a new series, called SX-3, billed as the world's fastest supercomputers, even though the machines will not be available until...
...campuses, in business and the arts. When Kingston published her first account, The Woman Warrior (1976), she was a soloist. Today she is part of a choir of writers concerned with the Chinese experience. On Broadway, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly explores the boundaries of power, sex and race. In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, published last month, Chinese mothers offer their children a series of poignant confessionals. China's repressive Cultural Revolution is the subject of a forthcoming autobiographical novel, A Generation Lost, by Zi-Ping Luo. The Chinese immigrant, now a professor of chemistry...