Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reduction surgery, which can shrink a bald spot the size of a palm to the width of a finger. The procedure, developed about eight years ago in Canada, is performed in a doctor's office under local anesthesia. The plastic surgeon or dermatologist makes an incision in the crown and then tugs firmly on the scalp, pulling hair-covered areas from the sides of the head toward the bare area on top (see diagram). A section of the bald scalp is cut away, and the incision is closed with stitches. The 60-min. procedure may be repeated to reduce...
...third-seeded Crimson placed second behind Maine in last year's double-elimination tourney, but this time things could be different. The 27-4 batmen swept easily through the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League this year, while last season's squad didn't clinch the league crown until the last game of the year...
...last night. "They don't think it's broken." He'll be x-rayed at UHS today just to be sure....Pakalnis is recovering from a broken nose suffered in batting practice last week. Lyman is recovering from a hyperextended knee suffered against Army....Harvard won back-to-back crowns GBL in 1980 and 1981. They are Harvard's only two other GBL championships since 1973....Despite the comparative rarity of GBL championships, the batmen care infinitely more about the Eastern League crown, which earns the team a playoff spot. "We should win [the GBL]." Crimson Captain Bruce Weller said...
...from a $1.1 billion hostile takeover by The Limited, a fast-growing group of women's specialty stores. Carter Hawley Hale asked General Cinema, a group of movie theaters, to come to its aid by buying some of its preferred stock, and offered General Cinema one of its "crown jewels": the profitable Waldenbooks chain. Another part of the firm's strategy, buying back its own shares of common stock, raised the ire of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC announced last week that it would sue Carter Hawley Hale for violating securities laws...
...just never found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small and wan, dappled old Woody said with the brave gleam of all winning trainers, "I thought he was a cinch, anyway." A son of 1977 Triple Crown Champion Seattle Slew, Swale favors that great dark...