Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubles draws proved just as disappointing. Chang and Captain Mark Leschly reached the semifinals of "A" doubles but lost in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. In the "B" draw, Cardi and sophomore John Tolmie posed a tough challenge but came up short...
Despite two penalty corners and an increasedamount of circle play, the Quakers continuallycame up short at the hands of a determineddefensive effort--led by senior Co-Captain ErinO'Brien and sophomores Sandra Whyte and KristinFowler...
...novella A Theft to appear as a paperback original, thus abandoning the hard covers that might have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...
...Short and powerfully built, Quan can outswear a gale of wind -- and outtalk even the most talkative Chinese. He reminds me of Robert Strauss, the former Democratic national chairman; Quan too, I am convinced, could talk a hungry dog out of a pork chop...
...China -- watchdog groups that keep an eye on everyone and everything -- are unnecessary in Wu's village. In tone and in fact, he controls almost every aspect of village life -- and the villagers have prospered thanks to his wisdom. When income from the local ice-cream factory fell short of projections, Wu converted the plant to a successful cotton-fabric operation in six months. When this summer's drought threatened to devastate the village's wheat and vegetable crops, Wu proposed that water from the Yellow River -- unused previously because it was so muddy -- be tapped immediately. Within 36 hours...