Word: duked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last spring, HRAAA's efforts had fizzledout and the group had virtually ceased to exist.HRAAA lost its last remaining representatives onthe Board of Overseers when the six-year terms of1973 Law School graduate Consuela M. Washingtonand Duke Professor Peter H. Wood '64 expired...
Those sorts of literal endorsements tend to make us cringe nowadays, whether at the primitivism, or the low state to which some public person has been reduced (George McGovern for Pritikin Longevity Centers), or the intimacy of real-life typecasting (manic-depressive Patty Duke touting a chain of for- profit psychiatric hospitals). Because consumers are too skeptical to put much stock in guarantees delivered by hired celebrities, and because major stars find it demeaning to recommend any product explicitly, mainstream celebritocentric advertising has become a subtle, weirdly stylized genre. Michael Jackson and Madonna don't do much more than appear...
Other universities which have installed the electronic system since then include Yale, Duke, Princeton and Columbia. "You'd be hard pressed to go call a school in any urban area that is not getting into it," Lichten said...
...Locker projects that Harvard will reach thelevel at which teams like Virginia and Duke playwithin two years...
Locker said that Kohler turned down chances to play for perennial powers and national champions Virginia and Duke to join the ranks here in Cambridge...