Word: towns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Harvard men's hockey team faces off against Boston College at the Conte Forum, it will be the first of three games which potentially lay ahead for these cross-town rivals...
...cannot be overstated how important building and maintaining a dynasty is in all levels of athletics. In pro sports, a dynasty can be an enormous source of pride and identity for a town or city. Look at the Green Bay Packers--they've transformed a little neck-in-the-woods town into one of the most well-known towns in America by virtue of their football dynasty. In collegiate sports, a dynasty is just as important. Having a team that year in and year out consistently wins games, division titles or even championships is an enormous boost for a school...
...machine whom the Democrats will soon make their candidate for the presidency, is at home in Georgetown having dinner with his friend Bill Thompson and the delectable Judith Campbell, later to be known as Judith Campbell Exner. Kennedy's wife Jacqueline, pregnant with John Jr., is out of town...
...mood is one of growing, if discreet, discontent. Baghdad residents have noticed fewer portraits of Saddam around town. In one area, Iraqis claimed that officials took down his pictures after citizens smeared them with excrement. Iraqis have clearly had enough of the hardships caused by economic sanctions, and Saddam's putting all the blame on the U.S. is wearing thin. Iraqis have seen their livelihood collapse and their savings eroded by inflation. "We've sold our refrigerator, our sitting-room chairs, our beds," said a young man in a juice shop. "Now my family is sleeping on the floor." Nowhere...
Instead of yielding, Calley saw an opportunity to boost morale--and upped the advertising budget. "I felt if we could kick the other studios' asses after they had told everybody in town that we were going to get murdered, that would be a major message and create a sense of empowerment here," he says. Masayuki Nozoe, Tokyo's man on the Sony campus, says Calley discussed the increase in spending with him, admonishing "This is the last chance for you [Sony] and the first chance...