Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billed as Ali versus Frazier. The Bulls against the Pistons. Top-ranked Miami against second-ranked Alabama...
...efforts were made to extend the principle of selection by merit. The College sought talent nationwide through its admissions program, admitting on merit, regardless of financial need. My mentor, John Usher Munro, Dean of Harvard College (who resigned in the late 1960s to teach in a Black college in Alabama), told me about the early days of national recruiting. He and others would take the trains in Chicago and elsewhere, visiting schools and homes to identify talented students and to persuade parents, most of whom had never attended college, to let their children come to Harvard. The Conant national scholarships...
...state judge has ordered a time-out in the bitter brawl between Alabama Republican Governor Guy Hunt and Democratic state attorney general Jimmy Evans. Judge Randall Thomas dropped a dozen theft charges against Hunt for allegedly diverting $200,000 in inaugural and campaign funds to his personal use in the late 1980s, ruling that the indictment came after a three-year state statute of limitations had run out. One ethics charge -- punishable by up to $10,000 and 10 years behind bars -- did beat the clock. On that one count, said the judge, Evans can proceed...
OTHER STORMS PILED UP MORE SNOW, RECORDED higher winds, killed more people. But for combined extent and intensity, the Blizzard of '93, as it was called in most of the U.S., was in a class by itself. Tornadoes in Florida, record cold in Alabama (2 degreesF in Birmingham), mountainous snows from North Carolina (50 in. at Mount Mitchell) to New York (43 in. at Syracuse), hurricane-force winds (110 m.p.h. in Franklin County, Florida) -- all were part of the same monster storm system that from March 12 to March 15 spread death and destruction from Cuba, where three died...
...Claude Harris, D -- Alabama: $270 given for handicapped children to see Disney...