Word: bracketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Hulbert, currently seeded first on the squad, finished third in the tourney's main draw, while Jackie Corrigan. Lisa Harrison and Lili Pew each advanced to the semifinals of the consolation bracket...
...makes a compelling case that the greatest injustice facing the world are those that mildly inconvenience that well-heeled. The most insiduous aspect of the column is Nemy's assumption that all her readers must share the plight of which she speaks. No matter what one's tax bracket, one finds one self wondering right along with her about how to juggle three black tie dinner affairs in the same evening, or who should pick up the tab when both you and the friend you're eating out with have expense accounts...
...first round of the "losers" bracket. Washington & Lee rallied to tie the Crimson in the fourth quarter, but Co-Captain Rich Guerra pumped in the winning goal as Harvard stayed afloat, 11 9. And in the final of their bracket, the aquamen outlasted what Couch Steve Pike called "a physically intimidating" Missouri-at-Rolla squad. Junior Steve Munatones played a stellar defensive game, recording four steals and a block in the 15-13 victory...
...MacEachen had little good news for Canadians. He asked workers in public service jobs to accept a cut in wage increases, from 12.2% last year to 6% in this year's new contracts, and in effect raised taxes by limiting a provision that protected taxpayers from inflation-induced "bracket creep." The new budget did offer lower-interest loans to small businessmen and farmers and proposed an innovative plan that would tax interest earned from special term deposits only when the interest exceeded the inflation rate...
Basing his study on surveys going back to 1970 that covered 37,843 French workers from all income levels and all kinds of jobs, De Singly analyzed data for executive achievement in the 35-to-52 age bracket. Married men far outscored single men, and single women far exceeded married women. Among all men and women with at least two years of professional or university training, 43% of married men reach the executive level, compared with about 29% for single men, 21 % for single women and a feeble 6% for married women. De Singly's conclusion: married...