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...seventh and eighth grades at Assumption High School, Maher's shooting skills made her a dangerous weapon in an unusual style of girl's basketball that remains today only in parts of Iowa and Oklahoma...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: Harvard Has Its Own Field of Dreams | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

...miss him, there's no question," Associate Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "He gives the team another dimension, another weapon in a pretty talented crew of forwards. He's done a lot for us as a freshman...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Sitting And Watching as The ECAC Playoffs Approach | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

Junk bonds proved to be the ideal weapon for exploiting a weakness in corporate America that raiders were quick to detect. They saw that the stock market valued many large companies at prices well below what their assets would fetch if the companies were bought and broken up. By using junk bonds to build their war chests, takeover artists could pay a premium to shareholders and still hope to make a profit by dismantling a target company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predator's Fall: Drexel Burnham Lambert | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...with his declining economy and ethnic warfare in several republics to try single-handedly to remake Europe. Some 390,000 Soviet troops are still based in East Germany, but in practical terms they are much more likely to serve as part of a future security guarantee than as a weapon for working Moscow's political will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe East Meets West At Last | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

That is a double standard. What does double standard mean? To call it a higher standard is simply a euphemism. That makes it sound like a compliment. In fact, it is a weapon. If I hold you to a higher standard of morality than others, I am saying that I am prepared to denounce you for things I would never denounce anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Judging Israel | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

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