Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dropped from $32 a barrel to $9, the Texas economy went dry -- and just about everything that Connally and Barnes touched turned bad. Their $14 million, 14-story office building in Houston, 80% vacant, was foreclosed on and sold at auction. A swanky housing development, Triple Crown condominiums in Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex., is the target of a foreclosure suit. More than a quarter of the 212 lots in Austin's plush estates of Barton Creek sit unsold. A creditor has sued to foreclose on four shopping centers; a fifth has already been lost...
Hong Kong, which earlier this year banned imports of South Africa's gold Krugerrand coins, extended the sanctions to iron and steel. Imports of South African coal and diamonds, however, will still be allowed. Hong Kong also asked firms in the British crown colony to halt voluntarily new investments and loans to South Africa. Said Piers Jacobs, financial secretary of Hong Kong: "The measures would bring Hong Kong in line with those governments that are our principal trading partners...
...both Meyer and Quinn should be ready for the Crimson's Ivy League opener this Saturday at Blodgett Pool against Columbia. Following the meet with the Lions is the big match-up December 3 at Brown, which Harvard must win to have a shot at its second consecutive Ivy Crown...
Unseeded Crimson senior David Clark copped the singles title, and the duo of Peter Palandjian and Arkie Engle took the doubles crown. All three will represent the East in the Rolex national indoor championships, to be held in Richmond, Va. in February...
Eleven years ago, a now-chubby Boston sport-scaster, Mike Lynch, booted a late field goal to give Harvard a 10-7 win and its only outright Ivy crown...