Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson (2-2 Ivy) sweeps the Bruins (5-1) this afternoon--and follows through with a pair of wins over a weaker Yale squad (1-5) tomorrow--it will clinch a tie for its first-ever league championship...
...losses dropped Harvard's record to 12-3. Five of those victories, however, came against MIT--a weaker team which probably won't play in the upcoming Harvard-hosted National tournament. Stronger squads--like Slippery Rock--will participate, making this weekend's tournament excellent preparation for Nationals...
...police officers, who had traditionally been allied with the N.R.A., see weaker gun controls as an increased threat to their lives. Pointing to the police in the galleries, Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, a longtime gun foe, declared, "They are here because they recognize that there were 700 or so killed in the last decade (by handguns), and they wonder whether or not they might be next." Only a day after the House action, two FBI agents were killed and five others wounded in Miami as they tried to question two bank robbery suspects who turned on them with...
...ECAC Weakness Theory. The ECAC is the weaker conference in the East and therefore, the committee could bend tradition to ensure that the ECAC got the best possible chance to send one representative to the Final Four. Giving Harvard home ice represents that best chance. Along these same lines, the committee fed the tournament champion, Cornell, to the lions--sent it to Denver--because it felt the Red was doomed in this clash of titans anyway...
Shortly after the filming, the teachers return to the lab to view and discuss the film with one of the teaching consultants. The consultation focuses on making sections more productive--identifying the teacher's strong points and the means of improving on them, and the teacher's weaker aspects and the ways to correct them...