Word: chain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kleinfelder is heading the team for her 11th season, with a chain of seven straight Ivy League titles to her credit...
...content with mere honorariums, Wright arranged an unusual sweetheart deal: a supporter published one of Wright's books, sold most of the copies in bulk to groups like the Teamsters, and then handed over 55% of the proceeds (nearly $60,000) to the Speaker as royalties. This daisy chain was probably legal, but clearly unsavory. It is among a welter of charges against Wright contained in a voluminous report now being studied by the House Ethics Committee. Few expect more than a mild reprimand...
...noon, customers were welcomed with coffee, cake and brightly colored balloons. From Waikiki to Watertown, N.Y., crowds poured into Sears' 823 outlets last week to see firsthand the transformation of America's largest retailer. After closing its stores for 42 hours -- the longest weekday shutdown in the retail chain's 103-year history -- Sears permanently slashed prices by as much as 50% on 50,000 products, or about three-fourths of its inventory...
...Perry, Ga., the small town about a hundred miles south of Atlanta where Nunn grew up at a time when the movies cut away to pounding waves whenever a couple embraced. A lot has changed in Perry, but along Sam Nunn Boulevard, where just about every fast-food chain known to man has an outlet, there is still a statue of a Confederate soldier pointing North, and farther along a billboard that says COME FOLLOW ME -- JESUS CHRIST. (Back when Nunn was in school, his class would regularly break for a period of religious instruction at a church across...
...bookstore, located near the Princeton campus, is owned by Barnes and Noble, a national chain of booksellers which had removed Rushdie's book from the shelves of all its bookstores for security reasons. The books were returned on the day of the Princeton protest...