Word: trip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quote of the Week: "I didn't trip the girl in the box. I thought about tripping her, but I didn't do it."--Harvard women's soccer Co-Captain Andrea Montalbano on her tripping penalty which set up UConn's first goal on a penalty kick in the Huskies' 2-0 win Thursday over the Crimson...
...first visit to Washington since he took office last December, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari wanted to do more than exchange pleasantries with the Bush Administration. As it happened, he was able to cap his three-day trip with a flourish last week when he and President Bush signed an agreement to promote free trade and investment between the two countries. At a White House signing ceremony, Bush hailed the pact as evidence of "the special relationship" between the U.S. and Mexico...
...Like storm-besieged dikes, the borders of the country had sprung one leak after another, and thousands of refugees were pouring out. The routine anniversary visit threatened to turn into another diplomatic nightmare for the Soviet President, fraught with the kind of tensions and prodemocracy demonstrations that marred his trip to China last spring. It was Gorbachev's message of change, after all, that had largely inspired the freedom flight...
...embassy gates closed when the refugee population had reached 5,000, then hours later, as the night turned bitterly cold, reopened them to families with children. A new round of departures was scheduled and then delayed. East German officials, moreover, insisted that the second group of trains make the trip from Prague to the West German city of Hof at night, rendering it more difficult for hitchhikers to board...
Meanwhile, the Vic Braden Ski College is gearing up for its third full year at Aspen's Buttermilk Mountain. Braden's critical eye was cast on skiing several years ago, after he and Melody returned from a ski trip confused by the variety of teaching systems they had encountered. Some seemed logical; others made no sense...