Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunshine Band: Despite not starting a game this season, junior Kevin Collins is the squad's third leading scorer, averaging 7.7 p.p.g. Collins, who scored 20 points against New Hampshire and a career-high 22 against Brandeis, hit a pair of free throws in the second half of the Lehigh game to become the third Crimson cager to eclipse the 100-point mark this season...
Guess those fortune tellers also forgot about Harvard Coach Bill Cleary, who has been around Cambridge for 17 years. He's seen guys come and go. He's racked up 269 career wins, 14 winning seasons, two ECAC championships and seven NCAA tournament appearances. Guys may leave and new ones may replace them, but the style of hockey certainly hasn't changed...
Valuable race horses have long been prime candidates for sophisticated medical techniques. Until recently, however, even a spectacular champion like Ruffian, the filly who was unbeaten during her brief career in 1974 and 1975, had to be put to death after shattering a leg. No more. By screwing metal plates into the broken bones, a practice adapted from human orthopedics, surgeons can repair the damage well enough for the animals to stand comfortably after the operation without a splint. (Earlier attempts frequently failed when the high-strung animals destroyed their casts, reinjuring their legs.) At Tufts, rehabilitation after surgery includes...
...young artist named Adolf Hitler applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was rejected. He tried again in 1908, and was once more turned down. Living in near poverty, he struggled on as a street-curb painter in Vienna. But then his career took another turn, and when he became Fuhrer in 1934 he ordered his paintings rounded up and destroyed those he thought were forgeries. Several hundred works survived...
...union claims correctly that several crucial issues are involved. According to Kris Rondeau, an organizer for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), they include pay equity, child care programs, parental leave, career advancement and job flexiblity programs. Despite my opposition to the union, I too support each of these programs...