Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team scoring battle, the University of Texas claimed its second consecutive title. The Longhorns amassed 475 points in the three-day meet, easily besting runner-up Stanford, which earned 396 points. In a surprise finish, Michigan grabbed third (315 points), while UCLA took fourth (313.5) and Southern California was fifth...
Harvard faced some of the strongest teams in the nation during its annual spring jaunt through southern California, finishing with a record...
...Though estimates place the cost of the initial phase at about 60 cents a person a day for the first five years, or about $2.79 billion a year, opponents believe the price tag could be as high as $15 billion a year. A study prepared at the University of Southern California calculated the resultant loss in jobs -- mainly from companies forced by added antismog costs to relocate -- to be in excess of 30,000. "This area used to be called the promised land," complained Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, one of two members of the district management board...
...kidnapers specifically wanted Terry Anderson. Fatefully, perhaps, the reporter advertised his availability the day before his capture, when he ventured into Beirut's southern suburbs to quiz Hizballah spiritual leader Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. But Anderson's colleagues at the Associated Press believe he may have put himself on Hizballah's blacklist as far back as 1983, when he traveled to their stronghold in Baalbek to grill Shi'ite leaders about the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks...
...hard-fought 1986 immigration reform also bypassed the Irish aliens. Aimed mostly at the U.S. southern border, it granted amnesty to foreigners who could show they were in the U.S. before 1982. That was just before the latest Irish influx began, cutting off these new arrivals...