Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other regional championships, North Carolina downed South Carolina to claim the South Atlantic crown and Rutgers defeated Seton Hall in the Mid-Atlantic Region. UCLA advanced with a forfeit over UNLV, which was disqualified for using an ineligible player in its first-round contest...
Saturday's tie gave the Crimson (13-0-3 overall, 6-0-1 Ivy) its first league crown since 1970. Yale, the defending champion, ended in second place with a 5-1-1 mark (9-4-2 overall...
...Saturday's Game was not only a battle of league giants in search of an Ivy crown but also of a pair of fine quarterbacks seeking to put their names on the league's most valuable trophy...
...invaded Britain in 1957, gained control of the British food company Bovril in 1971, reorganized it, moved on to the U.S. in 1973, acquired the ailing Grand Union chain for $62 million, reorganized it, launched a raid on Diamond International, began eyeing St. Regis, the Continental Group, Colgate- Palmolive, Crown Zellerbach, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Pan Am. He operated through a network of Panamanian and Caribbean holding companies, all ultimately controlled by an organization called the Brunneria Foundation, headquartered in Liechtenstein and entirely owned by Goldsmith and his family...
...confirm Fahd's waning authority, his proxy in Amman, Crown Prince Abdullah, played an important role in persuading Syria's Assad to moderate his views. Moreover, the absence of the Saudi monarch served, as it turned out, to cast more of the spotlight on Jordan's Hussein, who has emerged in recent years as the Arabs' most active statesman. In the end, it was Hussein who persuaded Assad and Saddam Hussein to talk directly to each other...