Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote last week, Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, declared, "One thing is clear. A more equitable and stable method of financing public schools must be found, and Michigan has clearly taken a bold step in that direction." Officials in Rhode Island, South Carolina, New Hampshire and Vermont all asked for detailed projections of Engler's plan...
Nevertheless, the ideas in the plan are taking root in other parts of the nation. The Wisconsin legislature has recently passed bills that limit school recently passed bills that limit school system's support from property taxes. Rhode Island, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Vermont are also reportedly requesting in-depth information about the plan...
...ball was about 40 feet for the basket, the score was tied at 52-52 and North Carolina State's Whittenburg was looking for some way to penetrate a pesky Houston defense with six seconds to go in the 1983 NCAA Tournament's final game...
...root for. There always seem to be impregnable teams coming into tournament play that attract the fans that former Villanova (I refuse to extend diplomatic recognition to UNLV as a school) Coach Rollie Massimino has always called "Neers"--as in, "bandwagoneers." They can certainly find Arkansas or North Carolina to be attractive commodities coming into this year...
...after knocking off North Carolina in the "Elite Eight," the Bulldogs made it to Albuquerque, N.M. and the Final Four against another Cinderella in Wolf(pack)'s clothing, N.C. State. Jim Valvano's sixth seed would have lost in the first round but for the poor foul shooting of Pepperdine, but they were still around to knock off the Bulldogs and set up a matchup in the finals against Akeem (before the "H") Olajuwon's Houston Cougars, generally regarded as the best team in the country at the time...