Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Harvard's final man in, Eric Schuler, suffered from a cold and found himself in trouble early in the race but hung on for a 31:09 finish...
...final tally of 38.2 million votes showed that Schmidt's coalition of his own S.P.D. and the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) won 53.8%, a gain of more than 3% compared with the 1976 election. The conservative coalition of the C.D.U. and the Bavarian-based Christian Social Union (C.S.U.) fell to 44.5%, a drop of more than 4%. Schmidt thus quadrupled his majority in the Bundestag to a more-than-comfortable 45 seats. The new lineup in the 497-seat lower house will give the S.P.D. 218 seats, the F.D.P. 53 and the C.D.U.-C.S.U...
...posture, his legs whipping a high-speed dressage. Niatross flew around the track in 1:49 1/5, smashing the world record for a pacing mile by 2 4/5 sec.-even bigger than the margin by which Secretariat shattered the Belmont Stakes record in his 31-length victory in the final leg of the 1973 Thoroughbred Triple Crown...
...though they were playing ring-around-reality. We know that there are big problems that demand solutions, so how come the candidates don't?" So muses Claudia Wells, 29, a secretary in Charleston, S.C., and her puzzlement is hardly unique. As Campaign '80 moves into its final three weeks, the discussion of the U.S.'s pressing economic problems has become a fractious and cantankerous presidential non-debate that is informing no one and confusing voters everywhere...
...passengers and about 200 crew members, the final moments of the Prinsendam's latest cruise were all too memorable. As the ship steamed through the Gulf of Alaska on a scheduled month-long voyage from Vancouver to Singapore, fire broke out. All of the people aboard clambered into lifeboats and were rescued, but not before some of them were tossed about in lifeboats by stormy 25-ft. waves for as long as 13 hours. At week's end, eight days after the fire first broke out, the still burning hulk of the Prinsendam sank, leaving behind a lifeboat...