Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Wednesday, the Harvard men's lacrosse team was sky-high, ranked seventh in the country with a 5-1 record. A post-season bid to the NCAA playoffs seemed secure. The Ivy League title was well within reach...
Kenya's Ibrahim Hussein, last year's Boston champion and the first African to win the race, placed fourth with a time of 2:12:41, followed by John Campbell, 40, of New Zealand, in 2:14:19. Campbell's time smashed the Boston course record in the Masters division (2:17:53), set last year by Ryszard Marczak of Poland...
...outlining the proposal, which will cost $350 million in its first two years, Sarney angrily denounced what he called the "unjust, defamatory, cruel and indecent" international campaign against Brazil. He defended his government's environmental record and denounced the "alarmist" tone of its ecological critics. He insisted that just 5% of the Amazon has been deforested; the more widely accepted figure...
...away from an alleged stickup at a Longmont, Colo., bank on a stolen bicycle. Kelm has confessed to a string of stickups committed, he said, to supplement his Social Security check. With a rap sheet covering nearly seven decades, he is believed to be the oldest bank robber on record. If convicted of all charges, Kelm could be sentenced to 120 years in the slammer...
...months the parties negotiated over a 30-ft.-across round table for unprecedented political freedoms. "Why a 30-ft. table?" went a Polish joke making the rounds as the talks got under way. Answer: "Because the world spitting record is only 15 ft." In the end, however, the two sides managed to craft a new political order intended to save their country from economic ruin and social chaos...