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Despite some sluggish play later in the game. Harvard's stellar first-period performance stood out, in large part because it reaffirmed the icewomen's excellent play of the day before...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Icewomen Capture Second in Beanpot | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...hapless Big Red simply could not recover from their sluggish first half and gaped while the hoopsters ran circles around them, grabbed a total of 20 steals, and riddled the Cornell zone defense with bullet-like drives to the basket...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Women Cagers Win Again, Whitewash Cornell, 74-47 | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

...dramatic measure was yet another devaluation of the lira, this time by nearly 50%; since last January, the value of Turkey's basic currency unit has fallen from 25 to the dollar to 70. Demirel also served notice on Turkey's sluggish, over-manned state enterprises, which account for more than half of the country's industrial production, that they would have to operate under market conditions. Last year government payments for public sector deficits accounted for one-third of the national budget and were a major factor in the soaring inflation rate. To raise foreign exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: A Long, Hard Winter of Discontent | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...Darmouth's Coach Tim Cohane was not satisfied with his four point lockerroom lead and switched from a fast-break attack to a sluggish four corner stall offense...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Nip Dartmouth, 77-75, In Triple Overtime Thriller | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

Play moved toward the sloppy and sluggish, but surprising rebounding by Mannix, some offensive spark by Dixon--despite a bothersome tendency toward the bad shot--kept the Crimson ahead by two-to-five point margins in the middle going of the first half...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Runs Past Cagers, 86-75 | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

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