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...MATEP project, which was initiated in 1974, was constructed over a seven-year period and cost more than nine times the original estimates. Its purpose is to provide cheap, reliable energy to the medical area. Harvard officials call it the most efficient diesel-powered energy plant in the world...
Dartmouth now holds that honor, as the Big Green slipped past the Crimson, 10-9, before 700 spectators at Chase Field in Hanover, N.H., Wednesday to capture the Ancient Eight crown for the first time in the seven-year history of the league...
...pits. Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make the Iran-Iraq war seem congenial by comparison. Emotions newly discovered are unique and convulsive. She loves me! Life hates me! How anyone endures this seven-year manic-depressive itch is a mystery even to those who have survived...
...four other industrial powers--Japan, France, Great Britain and West Germany--launched a successful effort to push down the dollar. It has declined by about 12% since then, first at a gradual pace and now at a fast clip. Last week the dollar plunged to 181 yen, a seven-year low against that currency, and to 2.34 West German marks, a level not seen since...
...Pontiff, however, was braced for one of the greatest challenges of his seven-year papacy. India's Catholic population accounts for only 12 million, or just 1.7%, of the country's 746 million people. Moreover, in recent weeks conservative Hindus had been warning that the Pope planned to use his trip to convert 200,000 Hindus to Christianity. The agitation peaked on Jan. 12, when 22 Hindu organizations rallied 50,000 demonstrators in Trivandrum, India's southernmost city. Last week's protest activities were kept tightly in check by police...