Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only time before Sprints where we can see Wisconsin and get to race with West Coast crews," O'Leary said. "In addition to Yale and Sprints, it is where we see our most competitive races...
...trouble with a Golden Age is that nobody sees the sheen and shine until years later. In Hollywood's case, it was many years later. East Coast intellectuals, who thought that the only real acting was done on Broadway, sneered at Hollywood's output. But, then, why shouldn't they have? The studio bosses, after all, liked to brag that they were just businessmen whose job it was to turn out movies -- no one in those days called them films -- the way General Electric did refrigerators and Ford did cars. The stories of their often comical obtuseness have since filled...
...Workers (I.A.M.) has staunchly resisted Lorenzo's demands for wage concessions. At midnight last Friday, after more than a year of federal mediation failed to produce an agreement, the union launched a strike that is producing havoc for the carrier's 100,000 daily passengers and could throw East Coast airports and other transportation hubs into turmoil...
...only guarantee of a decent meal, some travelers insist, is the brown bag. Manhattan's William Poll, sandwich purveyor to the Upper East Side top crust, prepares at least 50 boxes a week for his customers. On any given Monday morning, an arbitrager on his way to the coast will stop by to pick up his deluxe, shiny white box. Inside: beluga caviar on thinny-thin slices of white bread, a wedge of brie, English biscuits, a string-bean salad and a chocolate mousse. Fellow passengers look on jealously, perhaps not suspecting that this discerning gent finds $95 a small...
...solution appeared in 1978 in a plan hoped to counteract the damaging laissez-faire legacy of the 1960s. A Harvard curriculum liberated by a decade of student unrest--following a trend that had swept colleges from coast to coast--had become by the mid-1970s incoherent and "soft", offering courses such as "the aesthetics of film comedy" and "the civilization of continental and island Portugal" to fulfill humanities requirements, according to a contemporary article in the Saturday Review...