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Word: ran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a Harvard time out, the Boston College onslaught continued unabated. Scoring on 16 of their first 19 possessions, the visitors ran off to a 31-13 start on route to a 42-19 halftime bulge...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Boston College Express Runs Wild As Woman Hoopsters Fall, 75-49 | 12/6/1984 | See Source »

...Reagan Administration was quick to recognize the foundation as a fertile source of intellectual support, putting about two dozen Heritage staffers on transition teams in 1980. After a Heritage study concluded that the United Nations' law of the sea treaty ran against U.S. interests, the President canceled U.S. plans to approve the pact, which has been signed by more than 125 nations. When Foundation Scholar Stuart Butler adapted a British notion in a proposal for inner-city enterprise zones, both Reagan and Conservative Congressman Jack Kemp enthusiastically backed the idea. The Administration also accepted Heritage recommendations favoring the accelerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thunder on the Right | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...thank the stars if they are no longer in school. For these samples come from standard texts and other reading used by millions of American youngsters in elementary and secondary grades. Bonnie Armbruster, a researcher at the University of Illinois Center for the Study of Reading, last month ran an experiment in which she gave a group of adults 20 paragraphs from sixth-grade texts. "Their instructions," says Armbruster, "were to underline the main idea-if they could find it-and if they couldn't, then to write one of their own." The grownups flunked on both counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Debate over Dumbing Down | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...women the prognosis is a little more complicated. The only member of the squad to have a truly stellar afternoon was Co-Captain Mariquita Patterson who won the 55-m hurdles, finished third in the long jump and ran in both relays...

Author: By Becky Hartman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cadets Throttle Crimson, But Patterson Still Shines | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard men's fencing team ran its record to 4.0 Saturday by pummelling Brown, Holy Cross and Trinity in a four-team meet at the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's fencing | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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