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...League already suffers from a lack of basketball respect. The conference champ is always seeded last in its region in the NCAA tourney, partly because it is assumed that the level of competition in the Ivy League is much lower than in other conferences. The result is that the Ivy League champ has to face the very best teams in the nation--the Syracuses, North Carolinas and Arizonas. As long as the Ivy League continues to adhere strictly to the Academic Index and allow top basketball players to be lured away to other schools by scholarships, the League will continue...
...news hit the financial markets last week like a right cross from Heavyweight Champ Mike Tyson. An unexpected rise in the U.S. trade deficit ! knocked down the dollar against foreign currencies and sent the U.S. stock and bond markets reeling. Combined with an alarming surge in producer prices, the disappointing trade figure for February increased the odds that the Federal Reserve Board might feel compelled to raise interest rates to stabilize prices and defend the dollar. With that, the threat of a downturn -- and another stock-market crisis -- loomed once again...
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Although the squad is content with its 17th-place showing this year, don't think that it is ready to rest on its laurels in the coming seasons. All nine NCAA team members will be back for the 1988-89 campaign. So will Eastern individual medley champ Jenny Meyer...
...three-time defending Eastern champ Brown had a problem. One relay in finals, one swimming for consolation. Four individual finalists and three consolation finalists. Good for a fourth-place total of 111 points. This is a team that earned over 800 points in each of the last three Eastern meets...