Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takeover offer from Citicorp. But the beleaguered San Francisco company realizes that its shareholders will scream foul unless it does something to rescue its foundering finances (more than $1 billion in losses in the past six quarters). To raise cash, BankAmerica has decided to consider selling one of its crown jewels, the highly profitable Charles Schwab discount-brokerage subsidiary. The most probable buyer is none other than Charles Schwab, the company's founder, who sold out to BankAmerica in 1983 for $52 million but remained head of the brokerage unit. To buy it back, banking analysts estimate, he will have...
...upset knocked the Crimson out of contention for its first Ancient Eight crown since 1970--and rendered meaningless Harvard's upcoming regular-season contest against Yale scheduled to take place Wednesday afternoon at Ohiri Field...
...booters needed victories against both Penn and Yale to capture the Ancient Eight crown. By losing last night, the Crimson (now 8-3-3 overall, 3-1-2 Ivy) handed the Ivy crown to the Elis (11-2-1, 5-0-1 Ivy), who are currently undefeated in league play...
...although it will miss the services of these players, Harvard should still be a solid bet to win its sixth straight Ivy League title and to take the ECAC crown that eluded it last year...
Neither the Bruins nor the Bulldogs is tabbed to finish in the top half of the 12-team hunt for the ECAC crown that the Crimson is favored to capture. Harvard goes into tonight ranked fifth nationally...