Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...solitude is broken in the final room where the tone abruptly changes. There, bold early 20th-century works dominate. The American artists abandon somber colors for brighter hues in works which are no longer constrained to the traditional landscape and portrait genres...
Harvard held Assumption to a 1-1 tie in the second game, until a five-run inning assisted by Crimson miscues provided the final margin...
...week when the Senate approved broad new legislation against air pollution, the first since 1977, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee reported out a similar bill two days later. Both advocates and enemies of tighter pollution controls denounced the new legislation and vowed to fight on, but a final Senate-House compromise version is expected to reach the White House for signature by early next month. George Bush implied approval when he declared after the first vote last week, "The Senate bill is a major step forward. We can have cleaner air and a growing economy...
...final major prosecution in the long-running affair ended, Poindexter was the first defendant to be held accountable for more than specific, narrow criminal acts. North had destroyed countless NSC papers, deceived Congress and accepted the gift of a security system, which was illegal while he was on the Government payroll. Poindexter too was convicted of shredding a presidential finding and erasing 5,000 electronic messages (backup copies were discovered). But for the first time in the scandal, jurors were willing to sustain charges of a conspiracy to obstruct Congress and cover up the Iran-contra folly. "Admiral Poindexter...
...traumatic for the fraternities at Vermont's Middlebury College. In January the school's trustees declared single-sex social organizations to be "antithetical to the mission of the college," and ordered Greek-letter groups to go coed or face elimination. Two fraternities now admit females. Last week, facing a final deadline, three pleaded for more time to persuade their national organizations to revoke century-old prohibitions against women. "The college is taking away a valuable option," laments Richard Cochran, 21, president of Chi Psi and a proponent of single-sex clubs. "Fraternities can be good in an all-male setting...