Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League schedule comes to a close this weekend, don't expect to know the winner Monday...
...pinnacle of the Northwestern mission should come at about 3 p.m. today, when the Wildcats--beamed down almost 1000 miles from home--take on Harvard in the Stadium in first-round action of the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament. The winner will meet UMass Saturday in the tourney's quarterfinal round...
...winner of Wednesday's Harvard-Northwestern game will advance to the NCAA quarterfinals and a Saturday showdown with UMass. That game is tentatively scheduled for 2 p.m. in Amherst. The tourney's semifinals and finals will be held the weekend of May 21-22 at the University of Pennsylvania...
...biggest winner in the settlement could be the city of Peoria (pop. 125,000), whose residents depend on Caterpillar for one out of every five jobs. Recession and the slumping farm economy had pushed Peoria's unemployment rate to 19.2% before the walkout, and the strike sent it to more than 40%. A wave of corporate defections has compounded the city's problems. Pabst Brewing and Hiram Walker have pulled out of the central-Illinois community in the past two years. Now Caterpillar paychecks will pump badly needed money back into the city and help sales of cars...
...becomes do-or-die Wednesday for the Harvard women's lacrosse squad, when it goes in search of that first-ever national championship. The laxwomen should be the favorites and hold home field advantage in the single-elimination showdown, with Wednesday's winner moving on to next weekend's quarterfinal and the loser moving on to next year...