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...Eagles will, no doubt, prove more competitive than the Jumbos did yesterday in Somerville. Tufts managed only three shots against Harvard's staunch defense, while the Crimson pounded the Tufts goal...
...like it or not, compromise seems to be on the agenda for many in the city. About a week after the election, the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce will release a detailed study of rent control in the city. Though the Chamber has traditionally been a staunch opponent of rent control and an advocate of condominiums (eliminating the first and encouraging the second was the best answer to Proposition 21/2, they insisted last year), the report will "surprise people with its balance," one source in the Chamber said recently. The study is expected to agree with an earlier report done...
...Irish, his scheme goes, developed a staunch belief in the futility of concerted and sustained effort to do much good. Oppressed by an alien culture and political power, while mired in hopeless poverty, the Celtic natives developed habits and a frame of mind that characterized them in the New World as lazy and improvident. Signs reading, "No Irish need apply," that freely hung around Boston, reflected more than prejudice, but the honest judgement of employers who could only use national origin to screen for stable workers...
...original member of the revolutionary government, resigned in March 1980, offering reasons of health, to concentrate on helping her son with the paper. One month later, La Prensa was paralyzed by a Sandinista-induced labor dispute that ended only when Pedro Joaquín's uncle Xavier, a staunch supporter of the Sandinistas, started his own newspaper, Nuevo Diario (circ. 30,000). When that competition proved ineffectual in undercutting La Prensa's influence, the Sandinistas employed sterner measures...
Defensively, the Crimson was very lucky against the youthful Terriers. The usually staunch back line missed many a tackle and left more than an occasional B.U. forward unmarked. Walsh was the bright spot, looking extremely strong in the air on high balls and taking on several one-on-ones with hard-charging strikers...