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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recorded on shutout during that span--a beautiful 4-0 victory over Brown--and last Friday turned back 19 shots as the Crimson tied Ivy League leading UPenn in his home town of Philadelphia...
...NOTEBOOK: As the saying goes, and now for the bad news. Junior left wing Cat Ferrante, who scored five goals in a span of two games earlier this season, finally had her injured left foot x-rayed last Thursday. She has a real fracture, not just a stress fracture as first thought. She will be out a minimum of five to six weeks, which means the rest of the season. Crimson coach Bob Scalise experimented with some players at different positions in Saturday's game, and with the depth on this team, the loss of Ferrante can probably be compensated...
...claims that it cost the U.S. Treasury at least $18 billion last year. An obscure copy editor at the New York Herald Tribune coined the phrase Credibility Gap 15 years ago to jazz up a headline over a story about L.B.J.'s Washington. Today Credibility Gap appears to span the continent...
...Bendix Corp., of which he is chairman, and tried to put to rest once and for all the rumors that his admittedly "close friendship" with attractive, blond Mary Cunningham, 29, had anything to do with her rise from executive assistant to vice president for planning in the stunningly short span of 15 months. In the process, of course, he resuscitated some remarkably anachronistic ideas about women in business. Having thus cleared the air, Agee then settled back to observe the American business community set aside its minor woes (a plunging stock market, a Middle East war) to concentrate in rapt...
...entire span of most of our conscious lives either Muhammad Ali or Cassius Clay was heavyweight champion of the world, or should have been. How abhorred in our imagination it is! None of the dogs are leashed anymore. It's almost certain that Ronald Reagan is going to be president. And it's going to be a very hard winter, very hard indeed. Ali, Ali, lama sabachthani...