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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came into the game realizing that Harvard had the superior playing talent," RPI Coach Mike Addesa said. "We're a little thin the year and we're missing two of our best players...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Practice Makes Perfect | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...sometimes Man Ray customers are just a little too interested in watching the tall thin woman from Chattanooga rather than the other patrons. "One guy asked if he could look up my dress and I told him I would kick him in the teeth if he tried it," says Kelly...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Harvard Student by Day, Go-Go Dancer by Night | 2/22/1986 | See Source »

Gasser is a member of On Thin Ice, the improvisational group, and says "I'm not incredibly organized but I find that the busier I am the more I get done. It's the pressure of having a finite number of hours to accomplish a task...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Working and Playing | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

...cold front was moving down the Florida peninsula, pushing showers ahead of it. While rain does not hamper takeoffs by airplanes, its impact on a space shuttle at the speeds it reaches shortly after lift-off could damage the heat-resistant tiles that protect the craft's thin skin. Challenger would not blast off even into a drizzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: They Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth to Touch the Face of God | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...resource-rich Mindanao. Estimates of regular N.P.A. troop strength range from the Philippine military's count of 12,500 to Washington's 16,500 and the Communists' own claim of 20,000. Although the 230,000-strong Philippine armed forces enjoy an overwhelming numerical edge, their resources are stretched thin as they attempt to combat insurgents in 59 separate areas. Moreover, as Marcos admitted in a recent TIME interview, by early 1985 the combat troop-to- guerrilla ratio had effectively deteriorated to 4 to 1. To raise the ratio to 10 to 1, the level that military theorists commonly suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Communist Insurgency | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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