Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Start speaking, kid. Time is money. McNeese State is giving me airplane tickets to Hawaii if I give 'em the go to upset Illinois in the first round. Robert Morris has been calling me all afternoon. A last-second basket to beat Arizona, they're telling...
...Yeah. The N.C. State upset of Houston in the 1984 finals. The Indiana win over Syracuse in the 1987 game. The DePaul upset of St. John's in 1987. The 1986 Auburn upset victory over St. John's. Any time Ralph Sampson and Virginia was in the tournament. Michigan. Iowa. Pittsburgh. Notre Dame...
...Harvard hockey team, which was upset by Vermont in the ECAC semifinals last Friday at Boston Garden, earned the second seed in the East for this year's 12-team NCAA Tournament, the NCAA announced yesterday in St. Paul, Minn...
...never raised the issue directly in his private talks with China's top leader, Deng Xiaoping, and Premier Li Peng. The Chinese did, though. Toward the end of a wide-ranging 90-minute conversation on Sunday afternoon, Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang told Bush that dissidents threatened to upset the social order, which would "provide a pretext for the turning back of ((economic)) reforms." American support for them, Zhao added bluntly, "will not be conducive to the relationship between China and the U.S." Rushing off to a television interview, Bush did not respond. Just a few hours later, Fang...
...stunning upset ended decades of Labor Party dominance in numerous key regions. With more Labor strongholds expected to fall in runoff elections scheduled for next week, Labor leader Shimon Peres grudgingly agreed to an investigation into the humiliating defeat...