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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UMass took the team title Saturday with 66 points. Harvard's 227-point total placed it directly behind Ivy rivals Brown and Dartmouth, two teams the Crimson can reasonably expect to defeat when at full strength. Former Crimson star Anne Sullivan, who transferred to Brown last spring, finished second in the field...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Hobbled Harriers Capture Sixth Place at New Englands | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...somber gray suits and minus 25 Ibs. (thanks to a low-fat diet), he stressed pet schemes: overhaul the fiscal and monetary system, rebuild the cities, renew the space program, balance the federal budget, protect the environment, phase out nuclear energy. Says Brown: "The Democratic Party is headed for defeat in November unless it comes up with the answers for the decline in our economy, the decline of our technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More of Less | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...victory avenges last year's defeat to Tufts by the same score...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Raquetwomen Stop Tufts Jumbos, 5-4, In Grudge Meeting | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...would "not be satisfied with the maintenance of the status quo," a statement that he had worked out with Carter. The Administration was off on a course that nobody intended or wanted, one that could have resulted in a nasty and needless confrontation with the Soviets and the defeat of the SALT II treaty in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Defuses a Crisis | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...shaping policy. From now on Members of Parliament will have to submit to renomination by their local constituency parties midway through their terms-making them "poodles" on a short leash, as one moderate M.P. angrily remarked. Only the bloc votes of some moderate trade unions saved Callaghan from defeat on the third proposal: the choice of the party leader will remain in the hands of the "parliamentary party," the elected M.P.s, and will not shift, as the Benn faction demanded, to a broad-based electoral college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Left Jerks on Labor's Reins | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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