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Word: straight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third straight year, Young nets threeagainst the Engineers in the playoffs. Harvardwins, 7-3, to jump ahead in the two-game series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Those Who Were Away... | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

Junior defenseman Scott McCormack returns tothe ice for the first time since early January andnets a goal only 1:40 into the game. Young talliesthe game-winner on the power play. The Crimsonnabs its fourth-straight league crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Those Who Were Away... | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

Reilly replaces the Crimson's only two graduating seniors, Co-Captains Andi Montalbano and Jen Gifford. Montalbano should be selected to her fourth straight All-Ivy first time later this week. Gifford missed all but one game of the season with a knee injury, but travelled with the team throughout the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beth Reilly To Captain W. Booters | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...protect ourselves from it entirely -- may be traceable to the same unfailing optimism. In a culture that has long fancied itself a New World paradise, disasters seem impossible either to imagine or to tolerate. People expect to conduct the pursuit of happiness along a road that is straight, well lighted and free of bumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is California Worth the Risk? | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...chief spymaster, Bush learned to compartmentalize information, drawing on many sources but sharing little of what he knew or how he was leaning. As President, he continues the practice; much undigested and conflicting intelligence from Panama was "stovepiped" straight to the Chief Executive and his top aides, bypassing lower-level experts who would normally sort it out. Some Bush aides now admit privately that this practice confused the U.S. response to the Panamanian coup. The compartmentalization of information, says one senior Administration official, is "a destructive trait in any President. The information the President has is not shared with enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stovepipe Problem | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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