Word: earned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later, Harvard tied Cornell, 0-0. Its next game was a 1-1 tie against Dartmouth. After a 4-0 shutout of Princeton, Harvard lost, 2-1, to Boston University. The loss dropped Harvard's record to 4-2-3. But the Crimson won its last four games to earn an NCAA bid, and advanced to the Final Four...
...Tonopah, Nev., Air Force base find it so tricky they call it the "Wobbly Goblin." Onboard computers are supposed to control the Stealth's performance, even at the highest speeds, but experts say the plane sometimes "gets away" from the pilot, who then has to take over manually -- and earn his wings all over again...
...Soviets ultimately agreed to an exchange that is remarkably free of constraints: the visiting students have no chaperones; they live in ordinary dorms with their American peers, earn transferable grades and select courses on their own. In past cultural exchanges, authorities in Moscow wanted the U.S. Government to guarantee the return of visiting Soviet citizens (a request that was routinely denied). "There was none of that talk in these negotiations," says Ray Benson, a Middlebury professor and former embassy attache in Moscow, who headed the negotiations. Tuition, room and board, and a monthly living allowance of $150 are paid...
...owner of the center and the industrial park, Isaac Heller. The founder of Remco toys, Heller, 62, says the center, which is open to all Edison residents, has helped make his park an attractive location for the 38 firms that lease space. Observes Heller: "Not everybody is a yuppie earning $100,000. Some people earn less, and their children deserve the same care as rich people's children...
While many Harvard students spent the summer slaving away in musty offices to earn extra money, some seniors relished in the ambiance of exotic foreign countries--and some of them even got a tanned leg up on their thesis research...