Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard: Even if the Crimson cannot catch the two favorites, it should have quite a few contenders for individual titles. Besides Berkoff, who should dominate the backstroke events, Harvard has Co-Captain Keith Kaplan, the defending Eastern champion in the 50 freestyle...
...Mack's Back: Junior defenseman Scott McCormack returned to the ice for last weekend's games after sitting out seven weeks with a broken collarbone. And in case the spectators at last Friday's St. Lawrence game didn't catch the return of his name to the line-up, McCormack made everyone at Bright aware that he is back...
...like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves, driven to posse paranoia by their suspicions about people whose only sin may be eccentricity. It's sort of a lynch-mob movie for laughs -- laughs that are meant to catch in the back of your throat, like movie-house popcorn that turns out to be all kernels. One of the new neighbors is described as "about a nine on the tension scale." And so is this smart, crafty, off-putting movie...
...first home. But now, as the spring house-hunting season approaches, some help may be on the way. Everyone from builders to bankers to President Bush, who has called the home-buying crunch "among the most important and challenging issues in America today," seems eager to help first-timers catch up with the runaway cost of housing. When Jack Kemp was sworn in this month as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the former Congressman promised grandly, if vaguely, to "help recapture the American dream for first-time home buyers...
While longtime homeowners are sitting on an ever growing nest egg, which they can tap for their next house or other purchases, first-time buyers have few assets and too little salary to catch up. In a particularly gloomy report, the National Association of Realtors found last fall that the average potential first-time buyer had only 77% of the income needed to qualify for the mortgage on a starter home. Current homeowners, by contrast, had 112% of the income required for a mortgage on a median-priced home. Said Ira Gribin, president of the Realtors association: "The first-time...