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Word: duked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action. In the 1978 Bakke decision the Justices barred racial quotas in university admissions, but at the same time they appeared to endorse the principle of affirmative action. And a year later, in the Weber case, the court upheld explicit hiring quotas in a voluntary affirmative action plan. Says Duke University Law Professor William Van Alstyne: "There is serious strain within the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assault on Affirmative Action | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...final performance during the St. Petersburg engagement turns into a fiasco: a clown goes mad, an enraged tigress must be shot. Offstage, Fevvers nearly surrenders her putative virtue to a Russian grand duke. The trip on the Great Siberian Railway brings worse tidings: sabotage, derailment, kidnaping outlaws. Walser loses himself and his memory in the vast tundra, while Fevvers realizes that the vanished reporter has stolen a piece of her heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Wings of a New Age Nights At the Circus | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...still leads the team in steals (22), but he no longer leads the team in turnovers. That honor belongs to Carrabino (58)...If you go by minutes played, though, that honor belongs to Dodson (10 in 101 minutes)...Harvard's average home attendance is 837. Thanks to Penn and Duke, its average road attendance is 3,058...The Crimson is outscoring its opponents in the first half by an average of 4.6 points. Its opponents are outscoring Harvard, however, in the second half by an average of .8 points...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: A Winning Tradition to Rival the Titanic's | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard women's fencing team dropped three tough matches against well-drilled team from UNC, Cornell, and Duke this past week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Wrap | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...Crimson lost to UNC and Duke by the same score of 12-4 and to Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Wrap | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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