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Instead, López Portillo launched a series of grandiose development schemes, including a national system of support for basic agriculture and a plan to build 20 nuclear reactors. To finance these projects, he went on an international borrowing spree. Never stopping to think that Mexico's oil revenues could one day prove inadequate, American, European and Japanese banks were only too happy to oblige, in some cases offering Mexico even more money than it was asking...
...Huskies second-stanza scoring spree continued. Sharon Stidsen upped the score to 4-1 at the 14:15 mark, while Sullivan tallied her second of the night at 18:39, as Northeastern took a 5-1 lead into the final period...
...Crimson struck again Martin rolled the ball toward Kinsella, and Taylor redirected it at the now-open left side of the net. The ball might have rolled in untouched, but Jennifer White made sure of the score by punching it in over the goal line. The Crimson scoring spree was no small feat, as Kinsella and the Maroon defense had allowed just 16 goals in Springfield's 15 previous games...
...successfully targeted liberal candidates, mostly Democrats, for defeat. This year no side has a monopoly on the practice, and the victims are hitting back. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Allen Ertel implied on the campaign trail that Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh bore part of the blame for a shooting spree by a deranged prison guard who killed 13 last month in Wilkes-Barre. In retaliation, Thornburgh put ads on television charging that his challenger was "silent" when white policemen in Harrisburg began selling Ku Klux Klan pins. Republican Congressman Cooper Evans of Iowa has been running commercials charging that Opponent...
With only 6:45 remaining, the Minutemen went on a short corner spree, earning eight while only three minutes elapsed off the running-time clock. Seemingly unaffected by the constant pressure, the Crimson defense combined speed and positioning to stymie every UMass scoring attempt...