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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Multi-Arc Scientific Coatings, of St. Paul, has built a thriving international business (1987 sales: $10 million) by using a Soviet technique for coating metal implements with gold-colored titanium nitride. The superhard coating protects drill bits and other parts from wear and corrosion, increasing their life-span from threefold to 30-fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Russia, With Profits | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Harvard got the ball rolling first, soaring out to a 5-0 lead before the Big Green knew what hit it. Despite playing shorthanded three times in this span, five players tallied for the Crimson in this miniature rout...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Harvard Laxmen Manage to Escape Dartmouth Rally, 6-5 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...Dartmouth junior made 12 saves in the second and third periods, shutting out Harvard for a stretch of 28 minutes. During that span, the Big Green was making its own momentum against senior goaltender Mike Bergmann...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Harvard Laxmen Manage to Escape Dartmouth Rally, 6-5 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...seconds into the game, off an assist from Co-Captain Leelee Groome. The Tribe would not get as close as one goal again until the final minute of the contest. Co-Captain Cindi Ersek then tallied twice off assists from Groome and Katie McAnaney in a nine-second span, giving the Crimson a 3-0 lead with less than three minutes elapsed. Two goals from Kate Felsen sandwiched a Groome score, and Harvard led 6-0. The half ended with William and Mary trailing...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Laxwomen Advance to Semis | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

Last week a delegation from the Washington-based International Center for Development Policy, a left-of-center think tank, paid a private visit to the ravaged country. Robert E. White, a former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, headed the tour. Over the span of a week, the group visited Kabul and Mazar-i- Sharif, a surprisingly peaceful city of more than 100,000 people on Afghanistan's border with the Soviet Union. One stop on the I.C.D.P. tour was a large, blue-tiled mosque, where about 1,500 men listened as a stooped, aged mullah read from the Koran. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Looking Toward the Final Days | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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