Word: championed
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...captain Chris Clayton said. “After reading period and exams everyone is hungry to get out and play.”Harvard did more than simply compete, though, posting a 15-13 singles record and a 9-8 doubles mark against National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national champion UAM and a talented Marist squad.“[The invitational] went great,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “Most of the team did a very fine job against that high level of competition. It’s a good starting...
...chairman of the Senate Banking Committee from 1995 through 2000, Gramm was Washington's most prominent and outspoken champion of financial deregulation. He played the leading role in writing and pushing through Congress the 1999 repeal of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that separated commercial banks from Wall Street, and he inserted a key provision into the 2000 Commodity Futures Modernization Act that exempted over-the-counter derivatives such as credit-default swaps from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). (See who's to blame for the current financial crisis...
...Tours coinciding with the first night of a full moon culminate in Mepantigan, a performance created by taekwondo champion Putu Witsen Widjaya that integrates martial arts with Balinese folklore, shadow puppetry and fire-eating. It's highly entertaining, but Green School doesn't need to go to such lengths to impress. The thoughtful design is diversion enough...
...never had the opportunity to give that great speech, since people - even the nice people who run TIME's softball team and whose most threatening competitor is the Village Voice - keep me far away from crucial sports moments. But a true champion doesn't wait for destiny, he destinies for wait! I had a long...
...television's most famous odd couples appeared on the ABC show Fantasy Island: Herv Villechaize as Tattoo and Ricardo Montalbn, 88, as Mr. Roarke--two dream makers at a remote resort in the Pacific. Montalbn, a champion of Latinos in the entertainment industry, founded the advocacy group Nosotros...