Word: finalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quarterfinal round, Madhavan also placed second behind her fellow finalist from Arkansas, but she earned enough points to give her the first wild-card position...
...last round, only two minority finalistsemerged out of eight finalists and 176 totalapplicants. One minority of 11 was a finalist, outof 93 total applicants, for the post of trafficdirector. And no minorities were among the eightfinalists, picked from 43 total applicants, forassistant city manager for community development...
...faster boat and half their crew, according to Vincent Moeyersoms, Mighty Mary's manager. The courtship was spurned. But when Conner finally won the defender's title, he wasted no time in dumping Stars & Stripes and making a deal to sail Marshall's Young America-the first time a finalist has switched boats before the last series. Conner might have coveted Mighty Mary, but the women weren't about to let him have their boat, not after Conner's crew shouted vulgar insults and made obscene gestures at them during start maneuvers in the semifinals. Said Bill Koch, who funded...
...rest alloted for the teams on Friday, the Hobey Baker Award--given annually to the nation's top college hockey player--was presented to Brian Holzinger of Bowling Green University. Imes, who along with Allison carried Maine throughout the weekend, was the runner-up, and Grier was finalist...
...first and only time a challenger has wrested away the Cup -- it was mostly because of their newfangled keels flanked by little wings to diminish underwater drag. If Koch, a multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made from a revolutionary carbon fiber/polymer blend. As Whitbread veteran Merritt Carey, one of the two self-described "bow chicks" on the women's team...