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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, the pass defense has caught up with the run defense. In the past four games, the secondary has allowed just 35-percent completions touchdowns versus eight interceptions. This has helped make Harvard's pass efficiency ration fifth best in the country...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: ... Position by Position | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

Navy ships are dry, no booze allowed. Well, almost. According to naval tradition, if a ship is at sea more than 45 days, each crew member is entitled to a ration of two cans of beer. Just two. One man, the captain, decides whether the crew gets them. As of Tuesday, the Nimitz will be at Day 45. It has 5,500 sailors, so flying in 11,000 cans of beer poses a logistical challenge. The clock is ticking, but the betting here is that the beer won't come until the crisis in Iraq has passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GULF | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Have a male-female ration below...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, | Title: Quiz for the Weekend | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: KISKEEDEE? LOOK IT UP! | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...hull, depressurizing the interior. To keep the rest of Mir's precious atmosphere from spilling as well, the crew hurriedly sealed off Spektr, site of Foale's racks of experiments and his living quarters--disconnecting the cables from solar panels that provide nearly 40% of Mir's power. To ration electricity, the crew shut off Mir's stabilizing gyrodynes for several days and kept the ship from spinning out of control by firing its thrusters manually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CLOSE SHAVE IN ORBIT | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

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