Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Before the match, Harvard Coach Dave Fish said he was worried about the Toreros' one-through-six singles depth. But the Crimson's fourth, fifth and sixth seeds set their mentor's fears to rest. Harvard sophomores Jon Cardi, Derek Brown and Albert Chang each pulled out a three-set match--sending Toreros Chris Toomey, Kevin Bradley and Thomas Simonsen down to bitter defeats...
Torero Captain Dan Mattera then went the distance to end Captain Mark Leschly's Harvard career with a victory at the second position. Leschly battled back from a 7-5 first-set defeat to win the second, 6-3, but Mattera took command in the final stanza, closing out the match with five straight games...
Finally, late last month, the authoritarian ruler of Zaire for all but five of its 30 years of independence was ready to speak. As his compatriots -- who had taken to calling their President "Mobutu Sese Sescu" -- crowded around radios and TVs set at full volume, Mobutu gave his answer to the stunning events in Eastern Europe. Reversing positions he had tenaciously reavowed only months before, Mobutu announced that he would allow two parties aside from his to compete for power and would turn the day-to-day running of the government over to a new Prime Minister. "Wisdom comes...
...high-tax party, by euchring them into proposing an increase that he could either virtuously reject or pretend had been rammed down his throat as the price for shrinking the deficit. "Now I wonder if this ((summit invitation)) is a good-faith effort or whether political traps are being set," said House Budget Committee chairman Leon Panetta...
...earthquake that rattled the San Francisco Bay Area last fall caused $7 million worth of damage at Mills College, a 138-year-old women's school in Oakland. But the tremors set off by the college's decision to boost revenue by accepting men have shaken Mills' foundations more severely than any natural disaster...