Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell threw the match into overtime with 17 minutes left in regulation. Fisher took a low free kick from the right side that resulted in general confusion in the Harvard penalty box. Halfback Ted Heinrich used the hysteria to slip in the tying score...
Brown also downed Harvard without relinquishing a game, 15-13, 15-5. But this time, the Crimson allowed a 13-10 lead to slip away as the Brunets rallied for live consecutive pounds to capture the best game Hoovan's powerful serving resulted in a shaky Harvard receiving game. Unable to recover from that disappointing loss, Harvard resembled the dared team which occupied the event against Eastern Nazareth...
...antitrust waiver for the National Football League. There was even a bill that would exempt Zeke's Floatin' Bait, which is manufactured by a company in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., from a 10% excise tax. Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including a $500,000 chimpanzee colony for New Mexico State University. Not that the issue is just fish bait and monkeys. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker's notorious pork-barrel project, the $3.6 billion Clinch River breeder reactor, was voted continued funding...
...some of the biggest and best-known companies in the business, including industry leaders Revlon and Avon Products Inc., have seen their fortunes slip with the economy. Revlon last year had sales of $2.4 billion, with earnings of $175 million. But during the first half of 1982, profits plunged 27%, to $68 million, forcing a layoff of some 1,000 workers in August. Avon, a darling of Wall Street money managers during the late 1960s and early 1970s, has also begun to suffer. The company ding-donged its way to $2.6 billion worth of worldwide door-to-door sales...
Sometimes past incidents do accidentally slip out of a clean transcript, of course. Just ask Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), whose Spanish exam cheating scandal during his undergraduate days is common knowledge. (Kennedy actually got his diploma...