Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friars will meet Cornell, who last night defeated Colgate, 4-3, in the other semi-final contest, in tonight's finals...
...Cuban, and the Mexican Revolutions. And it is very difficult for us to accept the accidents of history--the demands of pragmatism. What the Mexican Revolution did was break the basic, unchangeable social structure imposed by the Spanish Conquest. It may have created a new bourgeois society, but the semi-feudal system during the times of Porfirio Diaz were changed...
There was no room for error, with two of the three semi-final matches seeing head-to-head confrontations between Harvard and Princeton players. Bain easily dispatched Princeton's John Barrett, 3-0, while Lemmon polished off Tiger Chris Sherry...
...Crimson's nine entrants--142 pounder Andy McNerney and heavyweight Jim Phills--managed to place within the top sixth finishers. McNerney earned himself a second day of wrestling with two wins Saturday, but was rudely awakened by a pin four minutes into his 2-0 overtime semi-final about against Cornell's Gene Nighman. The Crimson sophomore redeemed himself, though, with a 3-0 decision in his consolation match and earned himself fifth place finish...
Postal Subsidies. Congress created the semi-independent U.S. Postal Service in 1970, expecting that it eventually would become self-sufficient. Instead it kept running deficits, despite frequent hikes of its rates for delivering the mail. Not until last year did Congress insist on cutting its annual subsidy of $920 million by 10%. Now Reagan proposes to take another $632 million from the subsidy in 1982. The initial cuts would mainly affect county post offices and rural deliveries, as well as low-cost mass mailings by charitable institutions and churches. One endangered service: Saturday deliveries...