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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some league stats: St. Lawrence is the ECAC's top power-play team, clicking 29.7 percent of the time. Harvard, riding on an impressive penalty-killing streak, has killed 88.8 percent of its penalties, tops in the league...
...running and pressing team, and we did what we wanted to do," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "We just didn't shoot well. When you go into games against teams that are Top-20 where you're a decisive underdog, you've got to shoot extremely well, and we didn...
Critics say the agency's clout has become excessive. Says a top studio executive: "CAA packages are a prefab, take-it-or-leave-it way of making movies. Some pictures get made that maybe shouldn't be made." Ovitz has had his share of feuds, most notably with David Puttnam, who lost his job as chairman of Columbia Pictures last year after alienating much of the Hollywood establishment. Insiders say the abrasive Puttnam's most expensive gaffe may have been his brusque treatment of Ovitz and CAA client Bill Murray. Recalling a spat with Ovitz, agent Bernie Brillstein explains...
...That's what leaders are for, to take the heat," drawled House Speaker Jim Wright, sporting his trademark country-boy grin. It has seldom been hotter than it has been since plans for a 51% pay hike for top Government officials, including members of Congress, touched off a political fire storm...
...been successful in expanding Japan's role as a global philanthropist. Among the signs: a planned 7.8% increase in Japan's foreign-aid budget. The growth will lift Japanese overseas assistance to $9.6 billion for fiscal 1989, and should propel Japan past the U.S. as the world's top donor...