Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sunny day late in April in Hanover, N.H., Dartmouth slipped past the laxwomen, 10-9, to claim the Ivy crown. For Wardenburg, it was the low point in her four-year lacrosse career...
...Chicago's Tribune Co. Within the past year, the Arlington, Va.-based media giant had acquired two other major newspaper companies that had come up for sale: the Detroit News and the Des Moines Register (total price: $917 million). "It's a little like winning the Triple Crown," Gannett Chairman Allen Neuharth had declared after the Louisville deal...
King of Madison Avenue? No agency can hang on to that crown for long these days, thanks to an epic acquisition binge. Only two weeks ago, the merger of three large firms--BBDO International, Doyle Dane Bernbach Group and Needham Harper Worldwide--created the biggest agency in the world (estimated annual billings: $5 billion). But that superdeal appeared to have been surpassed last week when London's Saatchi & Saatchi agreed to buy Manhattan-based Ted Bates Worldwide for an estimated $350 million. Those two companies, which are expected to announce the deal early this week, will have billings of about...
Harvard will also be competing in the individual tournaments. Scott will be one of 64 players vying for the NCAA singles crown and Scott and Arkie Engle will be entered in the doubles draw...
...CHUMS AT THE SHERBORNE SCHOOL IN ENGLAND CALL HIM MAC, BUT TO HIS COUNTRYMEN CROWN PRINCE MAKHOSETIVE IS NOW KING MSWATI III OF SWAZILAND. HIS FATHER, KING SOBHUZA II, HAD RULED THE LANDLOCKED AFRICAN NATION OF 650,000 FOR MORE THAN SIX DECADES WHEN HE DIED FOUR YEARS AGO AT THE AGE OF 83, BUT IT WAS DECIDED TO HAVE THE FUTURE KING CONTINUE HIS EDUCATION OVERSEAS. NOW 18, MAKHOSETIVE BROKE OFF HIS STUDIES TO RETURN FOR THE CORONATION CEREMONIES. APPEARING AFTER A DAY OF SECRET RITES, THE NEW KING DID NOT SPEAK BUT WAVED SHYLY TO THE CROWD...