Word: bowness
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...argued that Gulf, which was conducting operations in the then-Portuguese colony of Angola directly supported the colonization of Africans by paying taxes to the white regime there. The demonstrators vacated the building a week later after the University threatened to file criminal charges. While President Bok refused to bow to the students demands, he did offer them one concession the creation of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) a body composed of students, faculty, and alumni which would give the Corporation non binding recommendations on ethical issues it faces in managing Harvard's endowment...
Montreal's demise is marked not by the year of the Canadiens' last champion ship in 1979 but by the retirement of legendary General Manager Sam Pollock the season before. Torrey, bow-tied and bespectacled, cuts that sort of figure now. During the Islanders' impoverished years, when their teen-age draft choices were always exchangeable for veteran castoffs, Torrey's patience formed the foundation of a castle. That dismal first season (just twelve victories in 78 games), a 20-year-old right wing born in Stockholm, Sweden, was so clumsy that he had to be tutored...
...Campbell Rogers, quiet, determined, disciplined and competitive, that is why he is where he is today. The 21-year-old senior is captain and bow man on the best heavyweight crew in the East, if not the nation...
Since then Rogers has worked his way up, rowing J.V. his sophomore year and then claiming the bow seat on the varsity last year. Currently Rogers is one of the two best starboards on the Harvard crew roster. When it came to seat-racing last fall, the oarsman was exempted from the head-to head challenges because, as coxswain Simon recalls. "There was no doubt" about his abilities...
...oarsman does not a championship boat make. But regardless of how the 1983 Harvard varsity boat fares against Yale and then at Nationals, one thing is assured. The smallish guy in the bow will have pulled his weight, and much much more...