Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been quietly taking a man-sized chunk of credit for the last-minute, spit-and-chicken-wire debt refinancing agreement that was the first step out of New York City's fiscal crisis. Duryea has campaigned well: Peddling his wares upstate, he stresses his early opposition to the Big MAC bond agreement, which he says was designed to make sure the city wouldn't get off with easy terms that might have endangered the state's own bonds. In Manhattan and environs, though, the spiel changes dramatically: Look here, Duryea says, if I hadn't agreed to the last-minute...
...around in animal skins and try to turn every election into a blood match against the five boroughs. Duryea, they want to think, symbolizes the Republican Party's new era--a shift away from the rural, anti-city sloganeering of past elections, a conscious effort to win the big urban voting blocs that for decades (Rockefeller excepted), have been under Democratic lock and key. For the first time in memory, they argue, none of the candidates for governor or lieutenant governor is an "upstater": Duryea's running mate, Rep. Bruce Caputo, operates out of Westchester, while the Democratic ticket...
...somewhere near the City of Brotherly Love, there is a college known as West Chester State. It's not exactly your Big Ten, national power sports factory, but it is a women's lacrosse stronghold. Third-year Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder is a West Chester grad, a product of the school's lacrosse wisdom. And this spring, Kleinfelder will impart some of her training to the Harvard women, as she takes over the women's lacrosse reins...
...with her U.S. team's progress so far this year. Since the team was named in early June, they have practiced together four times. Kleinfelder says although 10 of her 15 players are from the Philadelphia area, she has trouble getting everyone together during school time. But she has big plans for a Christmas vacation Florida trip. "Florida's gonna get intense," she says. "We'll probably go triple sessions...
Last year, Dartmouth fans sported buttons that bragged of a Big Green sweep and at the end of the race, the top Dartmouth finishers unfurled a school banner, waving it as they crossed the tape...