Word: award
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slaughter was led by 1987 'Shmen of the Year Bruce Burkley, who copped the award from his teammates last week...
...thought I was furthest from the award, which is probably why I got it," Burkley said...
...definitely spurred on [by getting the 'Shmen award]," Burkley said. "They were all cheering...
...deliver the message. Robert Solow, 63, who last week won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is a liberal academic who has never hidden his disdain for Reaganomics. And when the Brooklyn-born professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stepped before the cameras to acknowledge his award, he needed little prompting to lay into the policies that led to last week's crash. "The best thing you can say about Reaganomics," he asserted, "is that it probably happened in a fit of inattention...
...poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan assigned, as he later whimsically wrote, "to wear out/ the patience of the ingenuous local youth." Since then he has lived steadily in the U.S. (he became a citizen in 1977), teaching, writing and gathering acclaim, including a $208,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation...