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Word: snags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Landya Boyer, co-captain and center fielder, will move over from j.v. basketball to provide leadership and is a strong candidate to snag Ivy honors again. The left field/designated hitter spot will be shared this season by sophomores Mary McKinnon and Judy Zachariasen. When one serves as DH, the other will start in left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Softball: Batting for Revenge | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

Longest War: ABC's 18-hour The Winds of. . . brought Herman Wouk and a platoon of stars to prime time and proved that, with a $40 million budget and $35 million worth of on-air promotion, a mini-series can still snag record numbers of viewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: THE MOST OF 1983 | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

UMass seems assured an at-large bid to next month's tourney, banking on its impressive 10-0-1 record. But the Crimson will have to continue its Ivy magic to snag it first-ever postseason bid. With its 3-0 league mark. Harvard need win only two of its last three Ivy match-ups to reach the playoffs...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Fourth-Ranked UMass Topples Stickwomen, 2-0 | 10/20/1983 | See Source »

Allard suffered the opposite problem Few doubted in 1979 that Harvard could snag a league championship. They just didn't think that Allard would be the one to lead them...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Award-Winning Cast: | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...1980s. A key provision would accelerate hikes in the 6.7% payroll tax, to 7% in 1984; to 7.15% in 1986; 7.5% in 1988; and 7.65% in 1990. This is expected to raise an additional $40 billion in revenue from 1983 to 1989. Late in the negotiations, however, a major snag developed over a companion provision that would give workers an offsetting income tax credit for these extra payments in 1984. "The tax-credit idea is about the poorest part of this proposal," said Senator Armstrong, who denounced it as deficit deepening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Call for Social Security | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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