Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last night the Crimson continued its rampage through the hockey world, destroying Dartmouth, 10-0, at Bright. Harvard wing C.J. Young scored five goals, three of them coming in a 48-second span when the Crimson was short-handed...
...constant question "Don't you speak English?" in the streets and shops of major European cities is nothing short of an embarrassment...
Five days after the tragedy struck, shelte, and salvage equipment remained in short supply...
...Summer Olympics provided something less than the thrill of victory. Critics complained that the coverage was uninspired, viewers groused about commercial overload, and ratings were a major disappointment. The prime- time audience averaged 16.9% of total households (compared with 23.2% for the 1984 Los Angeles Games), falling far short of projections and virtually wiping out the network's expected profits. So it came as a surprise last week when NBC took an Olympic high dive once again, spending a record $401 million for the TV rights to the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona...
Talk about short honeymoons. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico's newly elected President, was about to drape the sash of office over his shoulder last week when the disruptions began. As several hundred guests looked on in Mexico City's Legislative Palace, 139 legislators who supported Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the nationalist candidate who came in second in last July's elections, marched out. Then about 30 members of the right-wing National Action Party raised placards reading SIX YEARS OF FRAUD...