Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Intangibles: The Terriers are not used to playing on grass. If the weather is poor, the Terriers will "run and shoot" and slip and slide. Still, beating Harvard is something every team wants to do in whatever sport. Stick it to the Ivy Leaguers...
Instead, this afternoon in Princeton, N.J. (12:30 p.m., ESPN, WHRB 95.3), Harvard (1-4 overall, 1-2 Ivy) will be fighting for its very survival and trying to halt a four-game slide...
...delivered a confident, well- applauded speech in which he called on Labor to come to terms with the "fact of the market economy." He sought to seize the initiative from Margaret Thatcher's Tory government with his emphasis on environmental issues, individualism and competitiveness. When Kinnock insisted that no "slide to the right" was involved, leftwing Laborites growled, but were shouted down by the moderate majority...
...explosive bolts, blowing a newly installed hatch off the ship, and extend the 12-ft. telescoping escape pole, which is positioned to guide them away from the orbiter's wing and tail. One by one, each would slip a ring attached to his suit around the pole and would slide off into the thin air, deploy his parachute and drop into the ocean, where his radio transmitter would lead rescuers to him. The escape procedure would work, of course, only under circumstances that leave the vehicle intact and under control...
...there, perhaps, a correlation between giving up 40 points a game and losing? And what, if anything, can be done to stop the slide...