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Texaco knows what it means to pay for past sins. Just two months after the company agreed to pay Pennzoil $3 billion to end their epic legal battle, Texaco last week consented to shell out $1.25 billion to settle another dispute -- this time with the U.S. Government. Texaco is one of seven major oil companies accused by the Department of Energy of overcharging customers between 1973 and 1981, when federal oil-price controls were in effect. The $1.25 billion penalty is the largest imposed so far against a single company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENFORCEMENT: A Billion Here, A Billion There | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...didn't play well the last two periods," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "We fell asleep. We went into a shell...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Icemen Hold Off RPI in Quarters, 5-4 | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

Early on it was RPI, the tortoise in this dual race, that went into a shell. And the Crimson hopped along fine...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Icemen Hold Off RPI in Quarters, 5-4 | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

...first stop, we witness the slimed zombies of the "pond-scum" cycle. Here, intense fall passion throbs within the confines of the Yard, a house or--horrors--a single entry. However, such wild affection can often mutate into something unrecognizeable. In a matter of weeks, both parties are left shell-shocked, embittered and unimpressed at the range of derogatory vocabulary each other employs. Words to watch out for: you slimebag; you used me; or, worst of all, it was a misunderstanding...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Love, Sex and Dust | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

Yale [56]: Mary Spolyar 2-0--4; RandiMeberg 6-0--12; Tonya Lawrence 12-1--25; AnnePeacock 1-0--2; Paula Kenefick 4-3--11; BonnieCoutu 0-0--0; Celia Schutz 0-0--0; Karen Canavan1-0--2; Jemine Shell 0-0--0. Totals...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: W. Cagers Triumph | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

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