Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Krantz sure knows how to dash a childhood dream. He is editor of The Jobs Rated Almanac (World Almanac; $14.95), a new book ranking 250 professions by such criteria as salary, security, stress, outlook and work conditions. Krantz downgrades jobs that look best to kids, putting garbage collector (No. 226) ahead of dancer (240), football player (241) and cowboy (242). Last on the list: migrant farm worker (250). At No. 1 is a job that few children even know about: actuary...
...sprints, Boston College's Rob Davis won the 100-meter dash in 10.88 seconds, and Thorb Towles won the 200-meter dash for Boston University with a time of 21.29 seconds. In the 400-meter dash. Fitchburg State's Brian Crossman took first with a time of 47.13 seconds...
When house hunters encounter the perfect palace, they typically must dash to the bank to arrange for financing before someone else snaps up their dream. Now comes perhaps the ultimate convenience for the charge-it generation: a silver-embossed piece of plastic signifying that the bearer has arranged a line of mortgage credit, which can be for as much...
...barnstorming dash, Chirac will seek to appeal to both the center- right and Le Pen voters. The Premier flatly ruled out any deals with the National Front, but he said he would address "the worries" of extreme-right voters. Chirac mentioned "all those who want security and to be assured that delinquency, criminality and terrorism will be fought with the necessary firmness; that our national identity will be preserved; that clandestine immigration will be fought...
...Crimson women flew sky high, as Rainey set an all-time Harvard record in the 200 meters at 24.5 seconds. Rainey placed second and Dowling came in fifth. In the 100 meter dash, Dowling took third and Michelle Davis placed fifth. Harvard's Katrina Posta and Allison Goodman finished second and third, respectively, in the 100 meter hurdles, and Co-Captain Nancy Lutz took second in the 400 meter intermediate hurdles...