Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to have you in New York on Friday,' " says Gregory Boyd, a California venture capitalist. His solution: buy partially refundable tickets in advance and swallow the penalty if he cancels. "Instead of flying to New York for $1,200, I'll book a week in advance -- $600 round trip -- and take the 25% penalty. Then, even if I don't go, I'm better...
...Crimson went through the wringer on its two-game road trip, so did the Big Green. Since Harvard and Dartmouth are traveling partners in the ECAC, the two teams face the same opponents on alternate weekend nights...
...years and years, the Ivies were dominated on the hardwood by Penn and Princeton, who claimed 23 of the 25 Ivy titles between 1960 and 1985. And because they were travelling partners, opposing teams hated to head south on the road trip they called "The Lost Weekend...
Shoumatoff's fourth trip took him to Madagascar, a spot that had intrigued him since childhood. Geologically torn from the mainland some 160 million years ago, the island once teemed with unique flora and fauna. Now, the author finds, forests are being leveled to grow crops, the soil is eroding, species are being crowded or poached out of existence. Shoumatoff does not underline his conclusion, but it is evident throughout the book: once an incubator of life, Africa today offers a panorama of possible deaths...
...scene would have been unimaginable just a few years ago: Andrei Sakharov, 67, for years one of the Soviet Union's most famous dissidents, on U.S. soil. The Nobel Peace prizewinner and ex-prisoner of Gorky arrived in Boston last week on his first trip outside the Soviet Union and declared himself a "freer man." A supporter of perestroika since his release from internal exile two years ago by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Sakharov was traveling with official approval and a blue VIP passport. At a press conference he urged the U.S. to back Gorbachev's reforms...