Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard women's squash team, last year's national champions, started its season with a 9-0 blow-out of Bowdoin. Each Crimson player swept its opponent in three short, sweet games...
...Ecolymplics" is a house rivalry that all students should take seriously. Sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee of Phillips Brooks House Association, Ecolympics pits the houses against one another in their efforts to cut energy use and promote recycling. The purpose is twofold: to reduce energy waste in the short, and to develop habits of conservation that will remain with students for life...
...ability to fight; Saddam's dictatorship can and will squeeze the civilian economy as hard as may be necessary to maintain supplies to the armed forces. Case in point: U.S. Secretary of State James Baker said on ABC-TV's This Week with David Brinkley that "tires are in short supply," but nongovernment sources in Washington say only civilians are affected. The Iraqi military has stockpiled all the tires it needs...
...claims were little short of miraculous. A simple herbal ointment from China was allegedly accomplishing what the most sophisticated medical technology in the U.S. could not. Victims of severe burns, charred beyond recognition, recovered almost unblemished. Damaged skin that would normally require extensive surgery healed on its own. The searing pain of a blistering wound suddenly disappeared, without the aid of narcotics...
...announcement last week that Milwaukee superintendent Robert Peterkin had resigned his embattled post to direct the program. Ten students, seven of them minority-group members, have begun a three-year doctoral exercise that includes a six-month internship in an urban superintendent's office. The effort is mercifully short on theory and long on experience and real life. Students -- most with more than a decade in public education -- role-play different sides in past labor negotiations, face local television reporters and ponder administrative dilemmas involving everything from what to do about asbestos in schools to AIDS education. The students...