Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Matched against Brown Saturday Harvard's formula once again paid off. The Crimson surged into an early lead and kept its comport in the rough waters to beat a strong Bruin boat by five seconds...
...hoped, having edged Yale last weekend to rise out of the ranks of second-rate Eastern crews. In that race the Bruins showed themselves to be sprinters, surprising Yale by coming on strong in the last 500 meters, Saturday, however, Brown couldn't move on the Crimson in the rough water and Harvard won with open water to spare...
...freeze concept with the complexities of maintaining true mutuality and stability in the U.S.-Soviet nuclear competition. Despite President Reagan's alarmism about the Soviets' supposed across-the-board "margin of superiority," the U.S. and the Soviet Union are in a relationship variously described as parity, rough equivalence, or "offsetting asymmetries." The Soviets are ahead in some categories, while the U.S. is ahead in others. But parity is not a static condition; it is dynamic. It is subject to shifting trends in areas that on the Soviet side could not, and on the American side should...
...scholarly, soft-spoken Muslim given to wearing the beaded cap and flowing white robes traditional to northern Nigeria, Shagari, 57, looks more like a poet than a veteran of the rough-and-tumble of politics. In fact, he is both, although he confesses that he has had little time for verse since becoming President. Active in politics even before Nigeria became independent from Britain in 1960, he was one of the architects of Nigeria's new constitution, which was modeled after that of the U.S. and went into effect...
...years Soviet achievements have drawn level with American ones--even, as with the inter-continental missiles, raising the competition to new levels. Although it costs Moscow more to build weapons of similar quality to those of the NATO forces, since Soviet technology is of a lower caliber, a rough equality will probably remain the rule for the foreseeable future...