Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After splits at Princeton and Navy, the Crimson has faced its toughest competition. The Tigers and Middies have fattened their records against Columbia, Penn, Yale and Dartmouth, teams Harvard should be able to sweep...
...Princeton visits Navy Saturday. A split or a Navy sweep would give Harvard a realistic shot at catching the frontrunners...
QUOTE: "I want to rail against wind and tide, kill the whales in the ocean, sweep the whole country to save people from slavery...
...three jet fighters and a lone helicopter flew overhead, some 300 troops backed by armored cars fanned out through the streets of La Paz last week. Another coup in a country that has seen 189 governments overthrown since its founding in 1825? Not this time. The sweep was ordered by President Hernan Siles Suazo as a twelve-day-old general strike, which had already crippled transport and commerce, threatened to push the nation into anarchy. Declared Siles: "Tolerance and patience have a limit...
...Government in the economy and reducing the deficit by slashing nonmilitary spending; simplifying but not --horrors!--raising taxes; stabilizing relations with the Soviets through arms reductions, but without giving up the MX or his Star Wars plan; preventing the spread of Communism, especially in Central America. His re- election sweep has bolstered his already high confidence that the public will support...