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...future matches--primarily the April 12th showdown with leaguerival Columbia at the Palmer-Dixon facility across the river--it is vital that the team gets off to a good start in the doubles, as in four out of the five matches on this California trip the winner of the doubles point proceeded to capture the entire contest...
BOSTON--With two starting defensemen nursing injuries and with everyone peeking ahead to Saturday's showdown with Princeton, the Harvard women's lacrosse team was ripe for a letdown yesterday. Junior Honor MacNaughton wouldn't let it happen...
Yale's best hope is to catch Harvard looking ahead to the big showdown Saturday night with Brown (15-9, 10-2 Ivy), but the Crimson seems too focused on perfection to let a win slip away...
What happened last Friday night might be termed, in the jargon of the ever precarious airline business, a near miss. A showdown strike by American Airlines pilots was avoided only by the dramatic intervention of someone who doesn't fly commercial, the President of the U.S. Bill Clinton, apparently not at all eager to see billions of dollars drained from the prospering U.S. economy, used a provision of the Railway Labor Act (which governs organized labor in the airline industry) to impose a 60-day cooling-off period...
...GWYNNE, our Austin bureau chief, has been covering labor issues for TIME on and off for the past nine years, first as Detroit bureau chief and later as national economic correspondent. His story this week on the dramatic showdown at American Airlines presented him with an unusual twist: the pilots' strike deadline came at just about the same time as our editorial deadline, so Gwynne had to fashion most of his story without knowing whether the pilots would walk out. "I reported it as though we were heading toward a major strike," he says, "while at the same time rooting...