Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Harvard hockey team hits the ice tonight against Boston University at Walter Brown Arena, the Crimson not only meets the lone undefeated squad in the ECAC (3-0 in the conference, 4-0 overall with victories over Merrimack, Providence, Dartmouth and UNH) but also the best crop of freshmen stars in the East...
...main reason for Kirbo's decision is money. In 1975 Carter earned almost $120,000 from Carter's Warehouse, whose annual gross revenues hover around $1 million. Now harder times have come. Drought has savaged the nation's peanut crop, and business at the Carter plant is down 15% from last year. Billy Carter recently valued the business at $3.5 million, which would make the President's share worth roughly $2.3 million. As for an asking price, Kirbo says, "I'm going to get as much as I can. It will be strictly a cold...
...Long believes that the trend is longterm. He cites as evidence the fact that the slowdown in mobility is occurring in the more highly educated levels of U.S. society, the very group traditionally most prone to prowl. His point: if mobility is declining at a time when a bumper crop of baby-boom college graduates is appearing on the scene, the trend is probably a powerful one. It is a message that has already got through to many corporations. People who are willing to move wherever the company sends them, says Polaroid Vice President Joseph McLaughlin, "are at this point...
...Florida Citrus Commission, some gays have been trying to persuade consumers to stop buying the product. The boycott has had only limited success nationally. While sales of orange juice are off about 10% from last fall, growers attribute this to higher prices, resulting from damages to the crop during last winter's severe cold spell. So far, the commission has received some 85,000 letters about Bryant, backing her 3 to 1. This week the commission will meet in Lakeland, Fla., to decide whether or not to extend her contract as its $100,000-a-year sunshine spokeswoman...
...really a very open thing," Horn contends. Gone are the days when the Ted Turners of the world would hop into their boats, still tuxedo-clad, after an evening of nightclub-hopping; sailing is now a down-to-earth, serious sport. Unfortunately hot everyone realizes that, and the fall crop of freshmen can't compare to the turnout for "normal" sports such as football and basketball...