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Despite a strong 11-6 win over Dartmouth in the opening round of the New England Championships, the Crimson laxwomen spent a disappointing weekend in New Haven. A close 3-2 loss to number-one seeded Yale, in round two, ruined their title hopes and sent them into a tailspin that resulted in losses to the University of Rhode Island and the University of New Hampshire in the consolation rounds...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Laxwomen Lose in Second Round of New Englands | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Arnold Toynbee, thus placing Delta House roughly two intellectual cuts above CBS's pompous The Paper Chase. Let the viewer beware, however, for future episodes will be written by different hands. Should ABC fail to exercise strong quality control, this promising spin-off could quickly go into a tailspin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Princely Palaces, Animal Houses | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

This season just proved too much for Billy. The Yanks got off to an okay start, but a series of debilitating injuries to the pitchers put the team into another back-biting tailspin. Had the Red Sox not been so outrageously hot up until last week, the Yanks would still be in it; as it is, they are lucky to be only ten games behind (14 a week ago). The difference may well have been Steinbrenner's incomprehensible cheapness, after spending millions to get a championship club, in dealing with Mike Torrez. Steinbrenner would not give Torrez, winner...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Shame of the Yankees: Martin Pulls the Ripcord | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

...foreign presence. Southern Florida has long had a large Cuban population, but more recent arrivals include tens of thousands of French Canadian small businessmen and their families, who have fled Quebec out of fear that it may secede from Canada and pitch the country's economy into a tailspin. In Hollywood and Hallandale, just south of Fort Lauderdale, 20% of the population is now French speaking; the Canadian flag flies over bars, restaurants and motels, many of which are Canadian owned. Longtime residents gripe that the new arrivals are clannish, refuse to learn English and do not participate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Selling of America | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...York Times-CBS survey released this month, only 46% feel he is performing well. A Harris-ABC poll puts the approval figure at 43%, though it is up from 36% in March. The Iowa Poll, the most respected in the Midwest, indicates that Carter is in a "public opinion tailspin" that has been gaining momentum in recent months. Those giving him a favorable report plummeted from 80% a year ago to 45% this month, a drop that was exceeded only by Richard Nixon in his last year in office, during the Watergate scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Balance Sheet | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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