Word: champaign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sheila Findley: an outstanding young backstroker who may well leave her name on the Harvard record boards before she leaves here. The Champaign, Ill., native has already broken the minute barrier in the 100 backstroke this season...
...Sybil-izing a lot lately," McMahon yawned, a coded reference to a multiple personality. "Why would I not want to throw a football? I have to go to practice anyway." Personally opposed to practice, he ridicules the Bears' lack of a heated facility and their habit of shuttling to Champaign-Urbana or Suwanee, Ga. "If you want to be a Bear," he likes to say, "it's a good idea to get into the frequent-flyer program...
...days earlier, signaling that something literary might be up, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth whimsically interrupted the amateur free-agent draft to award the New York Yankees a "special pick," G. Frederick Will of University High School in Champaign, Ill. Shopped as a fledgling shortstop, Will in truth is a fully developed columnist, usually called George, who cannot go to his left. He is 45, Giamatti 48, but they seemed as connected by chance as Tinker and Evers, for the dreamy realizations of Will brought home the realized dreams of Giamatti, who seemed to begin exploring this uncommon transfer...
...anymore. In fact, they were filled with splashes of red, brown and even green. For the first time since people began letting their fingers do the walking 100 years ago, multicolor advertisements are being printed in the Yellow Pages. These eye-catching ads, first introduced last November in the Champaign, Ill., phone book, now appear in ten markets, including Orlando, Cincinnati, and Springfield...
...1960s protests against campus military research. This time, however, the dissension is led not by radical leftist undergraduates but by professors and graduate students. Anti-Star Wars petitions are circulating on at least 48 campuses, from the University of Utah to Princeton. At the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana, 53 of the 70 full professors in the physics department, which is the second largest in the U.S., have pledged not to seek SDI funds and signed a statement that calls the program "deeply misguided, dangerous and enormously expensive." About half the engineering and physics faculty members at Cornell have...