Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, Ridley nailed down its third straight men's championship eights crown, pulling in ahead of the Penn Athletic Club and the Cincinnati Rowing Club in the afternoon's final race...
...books by two veteran American journalists contain widely differing reflections on these pressing economic issues of the '80s. According to David Halberstam's The Reckoning (Morrow; $19.95), the U.S. has every reason for pessimism about its industrial future. But Robert Christopher's Second to None: American Companies in Japan (Crown; $16.95) presents an argument for pragmatic optimism: many U.S. companies are competing on their opponents' home ground more effectively than most Americans realize...
PHILADELPHIA--The players on the Harvard field hockey team came here to Franklin Field Saturday looking to prove to defending Ivy League champion Pennsylvania--and themselves--that they were legitimate contenders for the league crown...
...state's Lutheran Church, whose male clerics, she says, still "persecute" their female colleagues. Inger Pedersen, chairwoman of parliament's Justice Committee, is drafting an amendment to the constitution, which now limits inheritance of the Norwegian throne to men, to include female royal heirs. The change would mean that Crown Prince Harald's daughter, Princess Martha Louise, who turned 15 last week, could eventually become the first Queen of Norway...
...Cinderella tales, where at the grand finale the queen sobs tears of joy while the losers hug her valiantly. Last week the Miss Thailand World contest ended up in a guerrilla-style skirmish that looked more like a nasty palace coup. While TV cameras recorded the scene, Newly Crowned Saengravee Asavarak, 22, was beaming before a Bangkok audience of 2,000 when someone grabbed her tiara and put it on the head of the sobbing first runner-up. Then another hand attempted to pull off her winner's sash. Saengravee was popular with the audience, but hardly with other contestants...