Word: break
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Before the 1987-'88 Ivy League season, some experts predicted that Yale and Princeton would break Harvard's winning streak and end its five-year stranglehold on the Ivy and national nine-man championships...
...League win also topped last year's total of eight...Chandler scored her 500th career point against Cornell Friday night...Forward Sarah Duncan pulled down her 500th career rebound in the team's 81-64 win over UMass last week. The junior is well on her way to breaking Harvard's all-time rebounding mark, currently 757 career boards snared by Elaine Holpuch '83...Seniors Sharon Hayes and Nancy Cibotti played in their 100th career games against Columbia and will probably break the all-time record for games, currently held by Anna Collins '86 and Trisha Brown '87, against Yale...
...code that defines them -- are set up by companies for their workers. An employee may contribute as much as 20% of his salary to the plan, up to a maximum of $7,313 a year. IRA contributions are limited to $2,000 a year. The 401(k)'s biggest break: contributions are taken from pretax income, with taxes deferred until the money is withdrawn. For most single taxpayers earning more than $25,000 and married couples with incomes in excess of $40,000, IRA contributions are made with after-tax income. Another appeal of the 401(k) is that...
...themselves official these next two weeks. Twenty-two large U.S. and Canadian companies are on hand as "official sponsors." An additional 26 are there as "official suppliers." And 41 more are "official licensees," peddling everything from Olympic-logo sweatshirts to figure-skating Barbie dolls. "These Games won't just break even," says David Shanks, corporate-relations manager for O.C.O. '88, the Olympic organizing committee. "They will make money." As much as $23 million...
American diplomats no longer need worry whether nanny is a spy. The graduates, paid a starting salary of about $1,300 a month, improve their Russian and learn about the Soviet Union. Says Nancy Carney, 22, a Tufts University graduate, during a break from scrubbing floors at Ambassador Jack Matlock's residence: "I'm having a ball...