Word: squad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Were the expectations too high? Can this year's squad find the fire it had last year and start smoking all the way back to the NCAA Tournament...
...Radcliffe rugby team did not have any particular plans for yesterday afternoon. But when the University of New Hampshire called up and asked the squad if it was interested in playing a little rugby, the Black and White jumped at the chance...
...penalties for violence. And it was the first conclusive success in the nation's long effort to punish those responsible for the 1985 murder in Mexico of Drug Enforcement agent Enrique Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar. The jury found Alvarez, formerly a member of the Guadalajara homicide squad, guilty of six charges, including two counts of committing violent acts to support racketeering. Jurors saw a videotape of Lopez telling about the torture and slaying of Camarena on the orders of Mexican drug merchant Rafael Caro Quintero. The jury is deliberating separately on the fates of two other defendants...
...summoned back on Labor Day weekend to become the de facto head of a triumvirate that includes campaign manager Susan Estrich and chairman Paul Brountas, the Dukakis camp was hobbled by lack of bold strategic planning. Even now, as Sasso belatedly tries to assemble a Democratic all-star squad, he is hard pressed to match the fast-break pace of Baker's disciplined band of G.O.P. playmakers...
...volleyball team has only four returnees from its 1984 gold medal squad, but the Americans were still the favorites as they came roaring into the 1988 preliminary rounds. Playing at first with the poise and confidence of veterans, they easily knocked off Japan and subdued a strong Dutch team coached by Arie Selinger, who guided the U.S. women to a silver medal in 1984. Then the Americans dropped the first two games of their best- of-five match with Argentina. "We were overconfident," admits Marv Dunphy, the U.S. men's coach since 1985. "We were waiting for them to make...