Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Harvard didn't allow Princeton a point in the final four matches, each contest was tight. Holmes, who had coasted to a 7-0-1 record this season, edged his opponent, 3-2. In the final round, Konovalchik scored an escape and was awarded a point to slip by Tiger Paul Dzenitis. Willoughby and Consigli were granted only slightly greater margins of three and two points respectively...
...second deadly AIDS virus, HIV-2. The strain was first discovered in West Africa in 1985; since then some 100 cases have turned up in Western Europe. The reason for concern: blood tests for HIV-1 do not always detect HIV-2, making it possible for the infection to slip through AIDS-screening procedures in blood banks...
...waited in line for an hour. and when I got up there they said, `Oh, you have signed a loan slip? Well then here's your blue slip. You can go,' "said Jonathan B. Bush '91. "What...
...Republicans warned that the action would relieve part of the pressure on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega which they contend has forced him into recent concessions. The aid cut-off would allow Managua to slip backwards into renewed repression, the president's congressional supporters charged...
...dollar continued to slip even though foreign governments spent almost + $100 billion during 1987 to prop up the currency. By late December the dollar went into a nose dive. Unbeknown to most traders, though, the central bankers were quietly baiting a so-called bear trap, in which they aimed to punish speculators who had been reaping profits by consistently betting on the dollar's downfall. They secretly agreed to launch a dollar-buying binge when the currency hit a floor price, possibly at 120 yen. At first only the Bank of Japan came to the rescue. Then all at once...