Word: award
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first-team ALL-EIBL selection in his first three seasons, DePalo earned Harvard's Bingham Award as the school's top senior male athlete in 1987 when he hit .310. The Crimson finished a close third in the EIBL race and posted a strong 19-7 overall record in his senior year...
...worked for 20 years as a civilian employee of the Navy, rising to become the chief contracting officer on the cruise-missile program. He had a reputation for being tough on contractors; at his retirement party, McDonnell Douglas presented him with a "cost cutter of the decade" award. But afterward, Parkin decided to go through the "revolving door" between the Pentagon and those who do business with it. He set up a consulting firm in nearby Alexandria, Va., to sell his expertise to military contractors...
...several secretly taped recordings of his telephone conversations. One call was placed by Lackner to Berlin from Parkin's house. Lackner insists he was only trying to arrange to have a cup of coffee with Berlin. Nonetheless, Berlin has been reassigned, and the uproar has held up the award of the IFF contract. Parkin and Lackner have both been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury that begins meeting in Alexandria next month to delve further into the contracting scandals...
...sooner had she really tried, as millions of other smokers have managed to do. The jury, apparently not fully persuaded of her determination to quit, decided the responsibility for her illness was 20% the cigarette maker's and 80% her own. Since New Jersey law says that product-liability awards can be given only if the defendant is at least 50% to blame, Cipollone's estate received no award, even though her husband won the $400,000, which the defense lawyers accuse the jury of handing out as an inappropriate gesture of sympathy. Still, anti-tobacco lawyers think victims...
Caprio, an excellent defensive outfielder, won the Wingate Award as the team's most valuable player and the Wendell Bat Award for offensive production. In addition to hitting. 300, Caprio--who played defensive back for the Ivy League champion Harvard football team--led the Crimson with three home runs, 21 runs batted in and 32 hits...