Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five game contests--the Crimson qualified all six of its competitors for semifinal play. A Harvard player won each division, and the Crimson finished 14 1/2 points ahead of a second-place Tiger team, bringing so much metal back to Cambridge that "we could melt them down and be rich," according to John Dinneen. Boyum, Jernigan and Jackson were also named to the 10-man All-American squad, while Lubowitz and Co-Captain Geordie Lemmon made the second team...
...since the carnage that accompanied the breakaway of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971 had the subcontinent seen such ghastly scenes of horror. After four years of festering protest and a month of mounting violence, India's oil-rich state of Assam exploded in a paroxysm of communal and religious hatred. In the turbulence touched off by opposition to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's decision to hold state elections, some 3,000 people were believed to have been killed, and Indian officials said that 100,000 others had been left homeless by rampaging arsonists who burned entire villages...
From Europe to the Middle East, harried members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries huddled through the week. The structure of bloated oil prices that OPEC had erected over the past decade, condemning rich and poor nations alike to recurrent bouts of inflation and stagnation, was shaking wildly. Prices had broken and were threatening to go into a free fall...
...prevent that from happening, the oil ministers of Saudi Arabia and several of its oil-rich Persian Gulf neighbors agreed to lower the official OPEC price by an undisclosed amount. The gulf nations were hoping to whip the other OPEC members into accepting the new price floor at a meeting this week. Failure to do so, the Arabs seemed to sense, could mean the end of OPEC. Said a senior OPEC official: "The war begins. It is very dangerous...
...never quite imagine people younger than oneself having a plausibly magical song of their own. It is a trick of age and generational perspective. Parents believe that the songs their children cherish, far from amassing rich emotional associations, are merely destroying brain cells. The workings of special songs are necessarily subjective, and they promote a kind of hubris. Still, even allowing for that effect, it is sometimes hard to imagine what private anthems will arise from, say, punk or new wave music. Are there couples now that will for years grow mistily tender when they hear a ditty by Meat...