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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Women's sports are definitely different than men's sports, as far as the difference between the top 20 teams nationally and teams in the Ivy League," Delaney Smith says. "In a given game, I would say it is more likely for a women's team to upset a team from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grappling With the Burdens of a Dual Life | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

...socialist agenda is disarmingly up front (at Cabinet meetings he calls his Ministers "comrades"), his tactics street-fighter tough. When the U.S. Government, upset at Perkins' antinuclear policies, turns up the economic pressure, he thumbs his nose by going to the Soviet Union for a financial bailout. Gleefully making the announcement at a press conference, he even supplies the tabloid writers with their next morning's headline: PERKINS SAVED BY KREMLIN GOLD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Red Harry's Revolution | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Williams shouldn't have been too upset about losing to Harvard by such a wide margin because thus far every other Crimson opponent has lost by the same margin. The triumph also increased the squad's winning streak...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetmen Crush Williams; Shutout is 72nd Straight Win | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

...Cornell game was really an upset," Tri-Captain Julia Trotman said. "We were just in a practice mode. Nobody really had the killer attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icewomen Falter in Lake Placid, Finish Fifth in Six-Team Tourney | 1/4/1989 | See Source »

Edward is a dog, a sad-eyed but otherwise lively Welsh corgi. When he is upset he makes trouble of a colorful, forgivable kind. Macon Leary (William Hurt) is his master, also sad-eyed, but with no redeeming manners or habits. Early in this lugubrious recounting of his struggle against clinical depression, one begins counting the minutes between dog cutaways. By the end, one is praying for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dog-Eared Doings THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

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