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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's something of a switch for RPI. Coach Mike Addesa notes teams used to be criticized for too much emphasis on detense But, he notes, "the qualities of the group we have now make it very scoring minded" It's a relatively young squad, inexperienced in collegiate play and the Engineers Canadian junior league veterans were trained to put offensive skills ahead of disciplined, defensive hockey...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: It's Playoff Time at Bright | 3/4/1983 | See Source »

...prices would be foolish because it wouldn't work. The recent history of the auto industry exemplifies the clumsiness of high prices as a mechanism to promote conservation. Detroit continued to manufacture gas-guzzlers long after gas prices soared, as auto executives balked at the massive investment required to switch to making smaller cars. Higher gas prices made consumers prefer more efficient cars, but the cars weren't available until years after the consumers wanted them, and then only after the government required the car companies to improve the mileage of their fleets...

Author: By David V. Thottungal, | Title: Passing the Buck | 3/3/1983 | See Source »

...Switch Dates...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Atkins Pushes Plan for Primaries | 3/1/1983 | See Source »

...senate leader's plan would switch the Bay State's current March primary to a date in the summer of 1984, when the Democratic field will have dwindled. He would also add three non-binding preference polls to periodically focus attention on Massachusetts, and establish earlier traditionally the first held nationally party caucuses to coincide with Iowa...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Atkins Pushes Plan for Primaries | 3/1/1983 | See Source »

...Antipholus of Ephesus, having sought his lost lost twin for seven years, finds himself in the hostile city of Syracuse, not knowing tat this brother lives there. Naturally, all sense of identity is passed through the proverbial mix master of comedy, as Antipholus's wife Adriana (Susan Larson) switches husbands, the husbands switch servants, the servants switch wives, no one knows what anyone is talking about, and so forth until the happy ending, in which no, better not give it away (It's too obvious anyway...

Author: By Jean CHRISTOPHE Castelli, | Title: Live From Syracuse | 2/25/1983 | See Source »

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