Word: trek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard takes a long trek into upstate New York this weekend, where the Crimson faces Cornell and Colgate in regular ECAC action. Harvard meets the Big Red in Ithaca, N.Y., tomorrow night and then plays the Red Raiders in Hamilton, N.Y., on Saturday...
...stakes and launch a cattle drive to Montana. Why? A friend has convinced them that there are big opportunities up north. What's more, says one, "I want to see that country before the bankers and lawyers all get it." But if the truth be told, the long trek -- initiated by an almost chance remark, beset by terrible hardships -- seems a futile whim...
...Kennedy School lecturers in public policywill also be making the trek to Washington. RobertBlackwill will work for the National SecurityCouncil, and Kurt Campbell said last month he wasawaiting security clearance for a post with thejoint chiefs of staff...
...year for the service, far more than the average household spends on the checks and stamps used to pay bills. But the biggest obstacle is that home computers have no way to produce hard cash, so they fail to eliminate a customer's periodic trek to the bank or automated-teller machine...
...those are the ones Isaac Asimov is currently studying, seated at his TRS 80, beginning the long trek to Opus 500. Working in his customary routine from 7 a.m. to evening, he will pursue a science fiction novel, provisionally titled Nemesis; a "rather large history of science"; a collection of columns for Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine; and a collaboration with wife Janet on a children's book about Norby, the friendly robot. Every so often, he and Janet will saunter downtown for a look at some Fifth Avenue shopwindows. Royalties and lecture fees bring in a high-six-figure income...