Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruiting plague has swollen to monstrous proportions in college sports--even infecting much of the purportedly immune Ivy League--idealistic Harvard has fallen behind on the playing fields. Unwilling to match dollar for dollar or to turn the other cheek on academic qualifications, the University has been unable to attract a sufficient number of superstars to keep its teams in contention with the frontrunners...
...women's squad, coached by Pappy Hunt, also enjoyed considerable success. Therese Sellers and Karla Amble trampled opponents all season long, following closely in Sullivan's footsteps. The harriers took second in the New Englands, behind Vermont...
...seventh-seeded Radcliffe heavies shoot past Princeton in the last 30 strokes of the Eastern Sprints to grab third place behind Yale and Wisconsin in the Super Bowl of women's crew in New Preston, Conn...
...cargo preference legislation of the education community." One longtime Capitol Hill observer is almost incredulous. "When you want to satisfy an interest group," she explains, "you give them a dinner--not a department." Many Washington analysts simply point to Carter's political ambitions as the motivation behind the legislation. Gregory Humphrey, legislative director of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)--the organization spearheading the lobbying drive against the legislation--puts it bluntly. "A politician in the middle of a campaign is similar to a moose in the running season--he'll support almost anything...
Education policy, says Ylvisaker, is too fragmented. "Within HEW," he says, "it tends to get submerged; health is number one, welfare is number two, and education just plods along behind all that." The dean compares educational policy to urban policy, saying that somebody must risk making clear and controversial arguments. "You have to put somebody in charge if you're going to get a coherent policy," he says, adding, "I would rather have one person in charge--even to shoot at--to clarify policy rather than run around to 1000 different departments with different responsibilities...