Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...genius, and his downfall, was recruiting. Harkness could scour the plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan signing up farm boys better than anyone. When asked why he switched from R.P.I. to Cornell, he used to say: "Because it's 90 miles closer to the Canadian border...
Princeton's hustling man-to-man defense knocked Harvard out of the game early. The Crimson were scoreless for the first four minutes of the contest, and never got closer than nine points the rest of the night...
Much of the northern half of Brooklyn is turning into Bushwicks. The white neighborhoods in the south half--Midwood, Flatlands, Brighton Beach, Mill Basin, Canarsie, Bay Ridge--look north and fear, because the poverty seems to be creeping ever closer. And for many of these people there's nowhere left to run. They're willing to make their stand, as they put it, because somebody has to. The older people especially, with fixed incomes and meager lives, lock themselves in at night to avoid becoming victims and tremble at approaching footsteps in the day--they have no place...
...careful study of linguistic minorities by the Association for Boston Community Development in 1972 yielded an estimate of 40,000 Spanish-speaking residents in Boston, probably closer to the truth. One official in the Massachusetts State House estimated there are 120,000 to 250,000 Spanish-speaking residents Massachusetts, although the U.S. Census counted only 64,000 such residents...
...month-long holiday without enacting his energy bill, and Carter called that the "only major failure" of his legislative program in 1977. But he had reason to believe, as he told his press conference, that Congress would complete action "early next year." Indeed, Senate and House conferees were coming closer to compromise. While Carter certainly would not get all he wants, and industry would not get all it wants either in terms of incentives, he had set the nation on the path toward sensible conservation and development of energy...