Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Dartmouth took control early, leading the Crimson, 13-6, six minutes into the game. Dartmouth's pressure defense forced Harvard (14-12 overall, 9-5 Ivy) to make several careless turnovers throughout the first half, while Nicole Hager led the Big Green (23-3, 13-1) in scoring with 12 points. Ten minutes into the half, Harvard trailed Dartmouth...
...police scrambled one of their own choppers to warn the intruders away. Though no shots were fired and the opposing whirlybirds never came closer than a half-mile from each other, the aerial confrontation underscored a tense standoff between state and local officials in Southern California over efforts to control an infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies...
...which now run at an estimated $1,200 per car, and the lag time between its current lineup of cars and the arrival of the L/H. Iacocca's road show is an attempt to prove that the company has a potent strategy and that he is firmly back in control of Detroit's No. 3 automaker. Critics who would dismiss his chances of pulling the company out of the fire this time should try to remember how badly his doubters underestimated the man a decade...
...waning months of Duarte's administration were beset by political turmoil. In March 1988 Duarte's bitter political rivals, the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), won control of the national legislature. Duarte's attempts to heal a deepening rift within his Christian Democratic Party failed, and one year later ARENA's presidential candidate, Alfredo Cristiani, triumphed, with 54% of the vote...
...very skeptical and cautious about it. The party wants to give the impression that it is not the undisputed authority, but it still is determined to remain in control of society, to remain the main force. The party remains deeply entrenched, deeply rooted in all ((government)) agencies. There is no other administration apart from the party. At some time, potential opposition forces will become political parties and will fight for some influence. But that will take at least until the next millennium...