Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite three first place finishes and two seconds. Rainey could not lead the Harvard women's track team to a sweep. The Crimson knocked off Yale, but fell to Princeton Saturday...
Though the birds are the center of attraction during the day-long events, cock-fighting isn't all that goes on at a cockpit. The arena, which resembles an American boxing stadium, comes wildly alive during the five-minute betting interval before each fight. Unlike at the track, where betting simply involves buying a ticket at a window, placing a bet at a cockpit requires complicated hand signals and lots of shouting and screaming. Bets are set through informal bookies, who earn a healthy commission...
Mutual deterrence. Against a sound track of feet crunching in the snow, the camera pans over a virgin white expanse to the shadow of a man. A somber voice-over intones, "After 20 years of walking in the footsteps of giants, isn't it odd that George Bush has left no footprints at all? It's almost like he was never there." This TV commercial had not been used, but Dole aides artfully leaked news of its existence last week. They called it their "tactical nuclear weapon," ready to air if Bush tried any negative ploy or increased his lead...
Pinned Down: The Harvard wrestling team (1-2 Ivy) will travel to Providence tomorrow to take on Brown...The women's fencing team will travel to Cornell tomorrow in a big Ivy match...The volleyball team will host Yale and MIT at the Malkin Athletic Center tomorrow afternoon...Both track teams will travel to Yale to take on Yale and Princeton tomorrow afternoon...Fencers Michelle Kosch and Amy Newhart will participate in the Junior Olympics in Cleveland...
Rubin says evasive tactics such as the above examples skew population data, particularly those pertaining to minorities. Officials estimate that six percent of all Blacks were under-counted in the 1980 census, but that only 0.5 percent of all whites were missed. Rubin estimates that the census is losing track of more than 15 percent of Black males in some areas...