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...team looked at some predicted scores that gave Yale a slight 85-78 advantage...
...Would you say the U.S.S.R. represents ... Sept. 1983 Nov. 1985 A very serious threat to our country 52% 32% A moderately serious threat 35% 44% A slight threat 10% 17% No threat...
...never knew their prosperity was the result of Nevado del Ruiz's last eruption. On Feb. 19, 1845, according to Colombian Historian Rafael Gómez Picón, "subterranean sounds emanated from the upper part of the ... river on the slopes of the snowcapped volcano . . . accompanied by a series of slight quakes. Suddenly, out of the canyon wherein the Lagunilla River flows, an enormous and strange torrent of thick mud became dislodged at tremendous velocity. It dragged with it great blocks of snow, debris, trees and sand." According to Gómez's chronicle, the mudslide destroyed the town of Ambalema some...
Will the slowdown continue? That was the main question taken up at a meeting of TIME's Pacific Board of Economists in Hong Kong. In their annual forecast, the economists agreed that East Asia would spend another year in the doldrums. Though the board members expect a slight acceleration of growth rates in South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, they foresee further declines in Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. Said Edward Chen, a board member and director of the Center of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong: "I do not see a very bright picture...
Radcliffe held its commanding lead throughout the entire race, starting strong on the calm, nearly motionless water and maintaining its lead for all 2,000 meters of the course. The weather—69 degrees with only a slight breeze—proved to be one of the Black and White’s greatest assets in the race...