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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson compiled a 4-5 record on its southern swing, including two wins against a Red Sox minor league squad. It was Harvard's best start in five years...
...This is a much better start than last year when we got smoked in California," first baseman Nick Del Vecchio said...
Item: Umberto Eco's gnomic, daunting Foucault's Pendulum, published in the fall, got off to a fast start with 278,161 sales...
...billion last year, but that is down from $87 billion two years earlier. (One reason is the surge in Japanese travel, which boosted the country's deficit in tourism spending from $3.7 billion in 1985 to nearly $20 billion last year.) Japanese moneymen are not likely to start selling off their investments all over the world, since those were made with long-term goals in mind. But some of the boldness may go out of Japan's acquisitiveness as the country adjusts to its new financial conditions at home...
...Gorbachev is to back away from brinkmanship and begin negotiations with the Lithuanians, who have all along expressed their eagerness to talk. In a commentary in the Soviet weekly New Times, political columnist Leonid Mlechin wrote, "Cooler heads will not ignore the will of the Lithuanian voters and will start shaping up a mechanism of cooperation with Vilnius. Any option for resolving this problem with force will strengthen the position of those in the republics who believe it is useless to try to reach an agreement with Moscow...