Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silver lining, if there is one, is this: the loss should take the skaters' minds off the streak and allow them to concentrate on doing something only one Harvard team has done in the past eight years--win an opening round Beanpot game...
Harvard's next game is Monday, February 2. The opponent is Northeastern, the scene the Boston Garden, and the setting the `Pot opening round...
...every February, so it seems, Harvard arrives at the 'Pot amid high expectations--and manages to go down in defeat. Last year the Crimson fell to Boston College, 4-2, in first round action...
...round-figured Khashoggi, who could pass as an amiable neighborhood shopkeeper, has been described as the world's richest man, though he probably never was and certainly is not now. He sometimes seems to be dancing a curious line between fabulous profits and grim losses. What he was and continues to be is the world's biggest spender, a man whose unrivaled profligacy gilds his self-image as a grand merchant-statesman. This soft-spoken man with a gift for putting people at ease, the product of a strict Islamic upbringing from one of the world's most conservative...
...current round of talks got off to an encouraging start last month. A 60- day truce that began Dec. 10 between army troops and Communist rebels brought the country's first peaceful Christmas in 18 years. Since then, however, the sides have been unable to agree on an agenda. At a session last Tuesday, Manila officials offered to discuss "food, freedom, jobs and justice." The Communists responded with a ten-point list that included penalties for the military's human rights abuses. The session broke off in confusion, but negotiators agreed to reconvene this week...