Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today's game is also important because it can easily trigger a three-game sweep. Penn, as one professional baseball-watcher put it, "just doesn't have it this year," and the fact that their starters have completed just two games of 21 seems to bear him out. The Quakers are young, inexperienced and rebuilding. A sweep would leave Harvard 4-2 and in good shape, and put some pressure on frontrunners--Cornell, Navy and Yale--who haven't forgotten last year's stretch...
...first-doubles team of Roberts and Pe won 6-3, 6-3, and the third Harvard pair of Kalish and Meyer clinched the match with a 6-3, 6-4 victory. The tandem of Bougas and Schulman completed the sweep with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 decision...
Debbie Kalish, playing in the sixth position, needed three sets to seal the Crimson's sweep in singles. After a slow start. Kalish played more agressively in the third set, defeating Diane Nicas...
...West German government have cooperated in a campaign against a tide of hard-drug use that has threatened to engulf both German youth and U.S. military personnel. In 1980 West German police seized a record 263 kilograms of heroin in raids across the country. Last year a sweep of one 15,000-strong U.S. military installation near Frankfurt resulted in the capture of $4 million worth of mostly marijuana and hashish and arrest of 146 U.S. soldiers. Another operation in northwest Germany netted 44 drug offenders, 18 of them U.S. soldiers. Military police seized 15.3 grams of heroin...
...Higher wages and the establishment of a systematic and honest employment policy through a union contract would be the first steps toward more secure working conditions and higher morale. As important, perhaps, could be the pride and conviction that union membership often entails. Workers would no longer need to sweep their grievances under a rug for fear of embarrassment and hassles from management. Instead, a voice would exist to address the preferences of all workers...