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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...while head coach Joe Restic warns that the Crusader defense is "very big and very physical," he said that its set-up is "made to order for us." Sending Cuccia in motion, Restic said, will limit Holy Cross's ability to double-cover Cuccia or adjust to a Buckley roll...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Holy Cross to Play on Gridders' Hit Parade | 9/27/1980 | See Source »

...earth's surface could be counted on to act as a filtration system, a kind of geological "kidney" that would scrub out bacteria and other insoluble contaminants placed on or in the ground before they could seep down to the water table, the ground water's upper limit. But this filtration system does not reliably screen out the waste chemicals cropland now leach into the soil from a variety of sources, including cropland that has been sprayed with pesticides, and industrial dumps like the pools into which liquid chemicals are placed so that the water they contain will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Deep Concern: Ground Water | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...course, those reviewers and columnists may be principal agents--osnovny--or merely trusted persons--doveryonnoe listo. In either case, with their help, the help of the American liberal establishment and of frivolous laws like those which limit CIA powers, the Russkies are on their way to world domination...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...didn't give up; when some tenants moved out--citing the insecurity that accompanied living in a building slated for conversion--GSD officials installed office equipment. For the remaining units, they went to the rent board again, this time seeking removal permits under a new city ordinance designed to limit property conversion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Stand at 7 Sumner Rd. | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...movies subtly encourage our xenophobia: the vampire film, for example, where the mysterious foreigner brings pestilence and death. (And preys on Our Women. It's funny how the American male, when he is not thinking about raping a female, is aggressively protecting her honor.) There seems to be no limit to the number of twisted, reactionary themes that a horror movie can comfortably accommodate...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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