Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss dropped Harvard (7-10 overall, 3-3 Ivy) into fifth place in the Ivy League and left the Quakers (8-8, 4-0) holding onto the top spot...
...front is just outside Kabul. From the center of the city, it is easy to spot a series of outposts -- small, mud-walled fortresses -- on the snowy mountaintops that ring the capital. Soviet and Afghan troops man the redoubts around the clock, watching for guerrilla movement in the valleys beyond. As soon as mujahedin activity is spotted, Soviet artillery goes into action, and the boom of outgoing fire echoes through the city...
...Soviet Union completed only the initial stage of a dizzyingly complex election campaign, the first contested balloting in the country's history. Although the period for proposing candidates ended last Tuesday, potential nominees must still pass through a maze of ill-defined voter meetings before they win a spot on the March 26 ballot...
...Jenny makes a big difference," Piltch said. "She moves everyone else down a spot...
...good are Princeton's freshmen? Mary Belknap, Marnie Brooke, Roos and MacKay are all playing in the top five. Last year's number-three player, Ann Sawyer, is now playing at the number-seven spot...