Word: builder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson had just won one of its last seven ECAC games, and second-place Yale was on deck. Harvard needed a quick confidence-builder, and Dartmouth seemed only too pleased to oblige. The result: a 4-0 victory that lifted the icemen's ECAC record to 6-7-1 (6-9-1 overall...
...Marble Hill nuclear power station alongside the Ohio River bustled with 8,000 workers. Now the cranes and earth movers at the plant stand idle, and a shroud of snow covers the project's jagged skeleton. Last week Public Service Co. of Indiana, Marble Hill's principal builder, announced that it would abandon the half-finished plant altogether. Marble Hill has already eaten up some $2.5 billion, making it the most expensive nuclear power project ever to be dropped. The decision brings the total number of cancellations of U.S. nuclear plants since...
...challenge. At least seven new hotels are expected. There are also plans for a "yachting city," to accommodate as many as 20 challenging teams, sail lofts, dockyards and marinas, and a communications and press center. Australia III, also designed by Lexcen, is already on the drawing board and, claims Builder Steve Ward, is "better than Australia II. Two weeks after we had Australia II in the water, we knew we could build a better boat...
...Body Builder Lisa Lyon, 30, is too busy these days to pump much iron. The U.C.L.A. anthropology graduate, who can dead-lift 225 lbs., has written and appeared in two pictorial bestsellers (Lady; Lisa Lyon's Body Magic) that feature muscle-bulging poses she calls "body sculpture." Now she has left her duties as hostess of a Playboy Network talk show to develop a fashion-modeling career. The 5-ft. 3½-in., 105-lb. unscrawny mannequin currently appears on six pages of the German edition of Vogue; her physique may soon grace rag-trade magazines in Italy...
...presidential poll is the first for the state's Democratic party, which has traditionally used this annual gathering to deal with state issues. However, today's vote could be a defeat for Hollings and a momentum-builder for Mondale and Cranston...