Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets, men in tattered clothing water shrubs, scrub public monuments, whitewash scaly tree trunks or sweep nearly empty stretches of roadway gutters. Business has slowed drastically even in places that cater to the rich. At Las Mañanitas in Cuernavaca, a favorite weekend retreat for the capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered...
...director of surgery John R. Brooks '40 ($108,019), Higgins Professor of Physiology Howard Green ($85,500) and Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder ($85,000) Only Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, in third place with $86,500, stood in the way of a Med School sweep. (As a "public charity," Harvard is obliged to file its top five salaries in annual tax forms...
...sweep of Solzhenitsyn's apocalyptic warnings, there was one note of optimism: "No matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity...
...Crimson's sweep of 8-6 Dartmouth Saturday eliminated Dartmouth, Yale and Brown from the title chase, leaving only Navy standing between Harvard and its first EIBL championship in three years. Rain postponed the 11-4-1 Midshipmen's doubleheader with Cornell yesterday, and the Big Red can't play the games today because of final...
...NOTEBOOK: The sweep closed the door on Dartmouth's Cinderella season. The Big Green jumped out to a 6-0 mark before dropping six of their next eight games... Bill Larson upped his record to 7-1 with his victory in the second game... Marchese sent his record to 5-1 with his win in the opening game... Martelli had the game-winning RBI in the first game, while Farrell had it in the second. EIBL Standings W L T Pct.* GB HARVARD 14 3 1 .806 -- Navy 11 4 1 .719 2 Yale...