Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boxing promoter Don King announces that he has arranged a July title bout between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, who has been lured out of retirement by a record $25 million purse. The warm-up fight before the middleweight bout will be the long-awaited grudge match between Martin Peretz and Alexander Cock burn. "We're billing it as Beirut II," says King...
...Associated Press named Penn State, a 27-23 winner over previously, top-ranked Georgia in the Sugar Bowl Saturday night, as the top college football team in the nation in its final football poll yesterday. It is the first national championship for Natty Lion Head Coach Joe Paterno...
...days after his inauguration, De la Madrid asked the 400-member National Congress to broaden the government's powers to crack down on graft. He announced a sharp cut in government subsidies for such basic commodities as sugar and gasoline. He sent a draconian budget to the Congress, calling for a $ 12 billion, or 50%, cut in the budget deficit for 1983. He also proposed an ambitious plan for government decentralization to help prevent urban paralysis in Mexico City, one of the world's most congested (pop. 16 million) and polluted capitals. The President then made a whirlwind...
...Harvard Ski Club is planning an excursion to Sugar brush in Vermont, and a few spots remain for students willing to pay $155 for the six-day trip, which begins Saturday. The Ski Club is also planning weekend and seven-day trips during reading period and intercession. They range in price and length from a $75 weekend trip to Loon, N.H., to a week-long trek to the snowy mountains of Aspen...
...each stop during the day, he emphasized the need to respect minorities for their accomplishments and work toward progress through activities such as scholarship and athletics. The world of Sugar Ray Leonard, he said, referring to himself frequently in the third person, has been a fair and rewarding place. "We are all given God's gift of some talent," he told one audience at Radcliffe's Agassiz Theater, "mine just happens to be beating up on people...