Word: careers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herschbach's husband, Baird Professor of Science Dudley Herschbach, says that his wife can handle the challenge. The Nobel Prize-winning chemist calls his wife's new career an exercise in "human chemistry...
Krayer was asked by the Administrative Board to take a two-year leave of absence from the University for academic reasons. Drafted by the Devils in 1985, Krayer plans to attempt a career in the NHL before eventually returning to Harvard to complete his education...
Evert won 157 singles championships, more than any other player, male or female. She competed in more than 1,400 career matches and won almost 90% of them. For 13 straight years, she took at least one of the four annual Grand Slam titles; for 14 straight years, she ranked first, second or third in the world. Her favorite victory came at age 15 over Margaret Smith Court, mere weeks after Court completed a sweep of the Grand Slams. But her finest moment was probably in the final of the 1986 French Open, when she fought back from...
...court. Above all, she seemed nerveless. She did not fret about the point just past, however irritating her own error or an official's miscall, and she did not think about what would come next. She focused, with almost icy calm, on the moment and the ball. "My whole career," she recalled last week, "people have been talking about how tough I am. Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion...
Some of the appeal, surely, has been her wholesome country-club blond good looks, her impeccable clothes sense, her unmistakable femaleness, even as she conditioned, dieted, lifted weights and practiced against men. Her career, launched at a time when many still professed to find something unfeminine in getting into shape and wanting to win, has helped legitimize running and sweating as suitable activities for two generations of women. Moralists hail her sportsmanship. In victory, Evert is exultant but not arrogant. In defeat, she congratulates opponents; she does not whine about maladies and misfortune. She has delighted feminists by regarding herself...