Word: defaulters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world. Borg has played 60 tournaments since his 1976 Wimbledon victory; he has won 37 of them. The only major title to elude him is the U.S. Open. He lost a close match to Connors in the 1976 finals ("My most bitter defeat"). A shoulder injury caused him to default in 1977. He was beaten again by Connors in 1978, when an injured thumb severely hampered his game. Last year he was eliminated by Roscoe Tanner, one of the few players around with the kind of big serve that can negate Borg's base-line game. His frustration at failing...
What will we do this year, without the June swoons, the July days, the August streaks and the September stretch? What will happen to our psyches when ballplayers forsake bats for pickets? Boycotted Olympics aside, what are the implications for politics and sports when the presidential race acquires, by default, a monopoly of the public's attention...
...feels that the national direct student loan program, which has allowed families boasting large annual incomes to seek help must be remodelled, because it is "utterly senseless to provide a financial bonanza to people who can afford to send their young people to college." She reiterates her position that default rates on student loans must be cut dramatically, and supports the administration's proposal to cut back about $250 million in student aid in fiscal 1981. The cut, slated for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program, she asserts, means only a "very modest" per student loss but, because the program...
...What is new is not mass communication as one of the major forces in politics," writes Barber, "but rather its emergence to fill virtually the whole gap in the electoral process left by the default of other independent elites who used to help manage the choice ... The primary task a presidential candidate faces today is not building a coalition of organized interests or developing alliances with other candidates or politicians in his party, or even winning over the voters whose hands he shakes. If he has his modern priorities straight, he is first and foremost a seeker after favorable notice...
...case originally went before Middlesex County Small Claims Court March 6. When Smith, the HDNS representative for the case, failed to appear, Zurier and Royce won by default. Smith appealed and was to appear at an appeals hearing yesterday morning...