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Adelphi shot a salvo of three goals into the Crimson net in the first 2:10 of the second. Chris Pujols strove to but the tide with a goal, but to no avail...
...Reagan strove to be as tactful on economic issues as Alfonsin was on political questions. The U.S. President chose not to reply directly to Argentina's most immediate plea for U.S. assistance, a request for a $500 million "bridge loan" to help the country ride out the debt crisis. But Reagan did assure Alfonsin that, as a U.S. official later put it, "we stand ready to help where we can." Later, Reagan aides expressed skepticism that the U.S. could or would do much on the debt question. "He would like our support," said one U.S. official...
Although he would never presume to make the comparison directly, it is hard to believe that Weinberger, 67, does not see links between his mission at the Pentagon and Churchill's lonely crusade in the 1930s, when he strove to rearm an unwilling Britain against the onslaught of Nazism. Weinberger was never viewed as a hawk in earlier phases of his public career, notably as Budget Director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Yet when Weinberger returned to Washington in 1981, almost overnight he began sounding Cassandra-like warnings about the Soviet Union...
...audience was treated to anti-Reagan folk songs and to mock speeches and press conferences in which students impersonating Reagan strove to make him appear alternately uninformed, easily confused, bigoted, and extremist...
...begin with, we never intended for this position to be a student position. This fall, when our executive secretary left, we "posted" the availability of the position and received a number of applications. In reviewing the applications and interviewing the applicants, the Administrative Committee--Brian's employer--strove to choose the most qualified applicant. That applicant proved to be Brian, who also serves as the Council Vice-Chairperson (he puts in over 40 hours weekly dispensing his duties for the Council...