Word: acc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Remember, the Eagles, starting three freshmen, are not the pride of the Big East this year. Coach Jim O'Brien's squad was not invited to the ACC-Big East showdowns last week because it was ranked last in the league...
Keating is also being sued by Lincoln customers, who claim they came into the bank to make insured deposits but in a classic bait-and-switch were steered into buying uninsured securities issued by ACC to keep the institution afloat. In hearings held by the House Banking Committee, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio read a letter from a 65-year-old man who was persuaded by a Lincoln saleswoman that the ACC bonds were just as safe as insured certificates of deposit, paid a point more in interest, and ran only ten months. "If ACC goes under in ten months...
Then there's the intelligent, softspoken Bennie Bolton, whose anger mounts throughout the 1986 season and finally erupts before the ACC championship game...
THIS defense seems credible when you consider that some of these announcers are responsible for breaking down the explicit racial barriers in sports (As CBS' Billy Packer says, "I was the first guy ever to recruit a black guy into the ACC."). But the stereotypes are too overplayed to be coincidental. After studying the broadcasts of several pro football and college basketball games, Derrick Z. Jackson, a columnist for The Boston Globe, found that adjectives implying pure physical ability or the lack of mental control were used between six and nine times more by broadcasters when they were describing Black...
...League does not lose all the good basketball players to the Big East or the ACC. The top players on each team have turned down scholarship offers from schools around the nation to go to an Ivy League school...