Word: championed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where students find McArthur distant, however, B-School faculty laud him as responsive to faculty concerns and as a champion of innovation within the graduate school's often static curriculum...
...Chester, Pa., and the NCAA Final Four. The Crimson topped Princeton in the semifinals, but Penn State held steady for a 7-6 triumph in the championship. Still, the loss did not mar the Crimson's season. That day in West Chester, the team acted like it was a champion--as if nothing had changed since April, when it trounced Dartmouth to clinch the Ivy title...
...sixth-seeded Crimson reached the semifinals before falling in five sets to eventual Ivy champion Princeton. Forman led the tournament with more than 140 assists...
Gorbachev has not always been a champion of the kind of people power on display in Tiananmen Square. Early in his tenure as General Secretary, his understanding of democracy was closer to Deng's concept of limited managerial and entrepreneurial liberalization. However, the Soviet leader grew to realize that as long as the Communist Party maintains its grip on all aspects of society, significant reform is nearly impossible. The party is too conservative, too resistant to change. At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the party was the agent of cataclysmic change -- but on behalf of a conspiratorial elite...
...first time in the history of Harvard softball, the Crimson had a chance to capture the Ivy title. But it had to face six-time defending champion Princeton...