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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...respectable loss for the women skaters, though. Respectable because, as sophomore co-captain Firkins Reed explained when it ended, B.U. "creamed us in last week's scrimmage." And because the second-year Varsity squad showed some real promise. But mostly because when the clock ran out in last season's opener, the Crimson had lost by an embarrassing...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: B.U. Outskates Icewomen, 5-3; Late Crimson Surge Fails | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...below last year's. The satellites also suffer from production blahs. One reason is the lack of advanced technology, but Marxist ideological strictures do their part. Some countries place a ceiling on the bonuses that can be awarded to individuals for higher output, and many employees prefer to clock out and work at second jobs in the growing "underground" economies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How Communists Beat Inflation | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

With three minutes left on the clock, Yale halfback Bruce van Boeckel dove four yards over right guard for the score. Brian Clark converted to give Yale a 7-3 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Beat Yardlings, 7-3 | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...Washington, there were round-the-clock meetings of the National Security Council. At the State Department's operations center, Iranian specialists frantically tried to keep in touch with Tehran and with the few American officials there who were not in the students' hands. In New York City, the United Nations Security Council convened in special closed session to search for a solution. Said Jimmy Carter to reporters on Thursday: "These last two days have been the worst I've had." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance counseled the nation grimly and correctly: "It is a time not for rhetoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackmailing the U.S. | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...clock rolled to one minute remaining, the capacity crowd began to stream onto the field as the Harvard fans roared. The Crimson ate up the clock and gave a beaten Eli team possession at its own 16 with 53 seconds...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: HARVARD BLASTS YALE | 11/17/1979 | See Source »

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