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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 12:37 left in the game, the referees suspended play so Betancourt could wipe blood off his nose...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOCCER NOTEBOOK | 10/9/1992 | See Source »

...Recruiting more minority and low-income students and improving race relations should go a long way toward reversing this year's problem. If it doesn't, we may have to consider special aid packages for minority and low-income students. Including both groups would wipe out much of the ethical problem of pitting competing groups of America's disadvantaged against one another. At this point, however, such a step away from Harvard's current policy isn't warranted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bidding War? | 9/29/1992 | See Source »

...Gulf War, but a show of support for heroes of a different sort--the loggers, troops of the Pacific Northwest--without whom towns like Forks wouldn't exist and wives and children wouldn't be fed. And these days, it's the loggers who are threatening to wipe out a lot more than trees and forest...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Killing Fields | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

Looking me in the eyes and saying that people from cities just can't understand, Bray says, "Hard to wipe your ass with the spotted owl, huh Michelle...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Killing Fields | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

...Rosenthal say that Sulzberger's single greatest achievement has been instituting a philosophy that values people almost as much as their copy. "Fear is not the best way to get things done," he says. This works better on the business side, he admits, where he has been able to wipe out layers of middle management, and less well on the editorial side, where executive editor Max Frankel joked on the day Sulzberger was named publisher that the newsroom would remain a monarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Times Of His Life: ARTHUR SULZERGER JR. | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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