Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, though, a word about the upcoming Harvard-Yale game this Saturday. The word is "trouble." Here we are, the 75th anniversary of Harvard Stadium, the tenth anniversary of the fabled 29-29 tie, and the first time no league championship has been at stake for Harvard or Yale since 1971, when Bob Blackman was doing his Bud Wilkinson imitation at Dartmouth...
Come to think of it, who needs a gimmick anyway? There's always something at stake, and The Game's crazy tradition could very well dictate a spectacular finale on Saturday...
...Corp., an international construction firm he heads that last year did $272 million worth of business in Saudi Arabia alone. Fluor's brainchild was a $22 million research institute at U.S.C. to be called the Middle East Center and funded by American corporations, including his own, with a stake in the Middle East. After all, some 20% of U.S.C.'s enrollment is foreign (one of the nation's highest ratios), and a passel of Saudi princes has passed through there. When plans for the center were announced last month to U.S.C.'s trustees, however, Jewish leaders...
Tomorrow's football game at Penn presents something of a new twist on the age-old Philadelphia joke: Q: What's worse than a free trip to Philadelphia with the Ivy League title at stake? A: A free trip to Philadelphia without the title at stake...
...after winning the Ivy League women's soccer championship Saturday. Today the team with an 11-0 record gets a chance to sing that refrain again, as it hosts unbeaten UMass, whose record stands at 15-0-1, at Soldiers Field with the unofficial New England soccer title at stake...