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...been kind of confused about your own Christmas spree...

Author: By Abigail N. Sosland, | Title: Christmas Shopping From A to Z | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Brown goaltender Chris Harvey knows about Harvard's scoring strength. He did not have a fun evening. Harvey batted away 49 shots in the game, but even that rather large total won't salvage his save percentage after the Crimson scoring spree...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Bear Fact: Icemen Roar, 10-1 | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

Yale failed on both accounts. The Elis allowed Harvard to snare a 3-0 lead in the first period and score both the late-game goals. Princeton kept it close--Harvard led, 6-5, heading into the final period--but let the Crimson go on a three-goal scoring spree in the third for a 9-5 Crimson victory last Saturday...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Big Green Braces for Icemen Invasion | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...Bush's strategists to brand Michael Dukakis a gooey liberal out of touch with mainstream values, none worked better than the relentless pounding of Horton's horrible tale. By the end of the campaign, scarcely a voter had not been exposed to the lurid details of the rapacious spree Horton committed while on weekend furlough from the Massachusetts prison to which he had been sentenced to life without parole for a brutal 1974 homicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Most Valuable Player | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

THOSE CORPORATE RAIDERS CAN ALWAYS SMELL A BARGAIN. Takeover artists, restrained by high stock prices before the crash, have gone on a shopping spree once again. Florida-based financier Paul Bilzerian, 38, acquired the Singer Co. for $1.06 billion last February partly because the crash had depressed its stock price. Since then, Bilzerian has sold off eight of Singer's twelve divisions for a total of $1.94 billion, more than enough to cover all his costs. In the end, he is expected to reap a $300 million profit. The Government is investigating his earlier raids for possible securities-law violations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: One Year Later It Was the Best of Times . . . | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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