Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss to the University of Georgia marked the fourth time in the last five years that the Crimson has lost in the first round of the 16-team tournament...
Both competitions will begin with preliminary rounds Wednesday and a full slate of opening round matches Thursday...
...like all of a sudden we're a new glamour girl." Military activity currently provides 30,000 of the city's 187,000 jobs and about a third of the local economy. Some 12,500 retired military personnel have been drawn to the city by its mild climate (year-round golf), recreational opportunities in the Rocky Mountains and well-stocked PXs. "In Colorado Springs," says Garland L. Anneler, chairman of the United Bank of Colorado Springs, "generals are as common as dime-store clerks in other towns...
...prime American goal, extensively advertised in advance, was to win agreement on starting a new round of talks in early 1986 aimed at liberalizing world trade (prematurely christened the Reagan Round by some admirers of the President). One aim would be to provide the world economy . with a tonic, in the form of speeded-up exchange of goods and services, that it might need to shake off the effects of a slowdown in U.S. industrial expansion. A more political, and more pressing, purpose was to give Free Trader Reagan ammunition to use against protectionists at home who want to limit...
...name is Popie Jopie./ I happily travel 'round,/ And always when I arrive/ I spontaneously kiss the ground . . ." So runs last week's fifth- most-popular song on Holland's hit parade. The mild piece of satire contains a punster's slap at Pope John Paul II: popie jopie is a Dutch expression meaning obnoxious. The song is but one indication of the hostility that will greet the Pontiff when he arrives in the Netherlands on Saturday for a four-day visit. More disturbing are the threats of violence. Dutch authorities have mobilized 12,000 police for what will...