Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas Rangers have never fielded a division champion, since their move from Washington to Dallas-Fort Worth in 1971. However, the club has produced a plethora of pitching talent, which it deals to other teams, usually for next to nothing. In this vein, for ten points, identify the one player in this list who was not at one time the property of the Rangers...
...week at Xavier University's field house for an emotional rally to urge the state to speed up action. New York's Citicorp has emerged as the prime merger candidate. A host of state and federal investigators are looking into Home State's ties with E.S.M. Government Securities, a Fort Lauderdale dealer in Treasury bills and bonds whose March 4 closing forced Home State out of business. A central figure in these probes is Financier Marvin Warner, the owner of Home State and formerly a heavy investor in E.S.M. Last week a group of Home State depositors filed...
...universal freedom. Black Harvardians have an opportunity to share the tradition of John Quincy Adams who defended the Black liberation, Cinque, of the absolutionists Emerson, Longfellow and Thoreau. Robert could Shaw volunteered to lead the Black 54th Massachusetts regiment into battle and was killed in a bloody assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. Shaw was buried in a mass grave with his slain troops. His family wrote. "He could have no finer honor...
Shunning wet T-shirt contests in Fort Lauderdale, the Harvard women's tennis team opted to battle the top squads in the country and a raging snow storm over spring break...
Ohio's crisis began early this month with the collapse of an obscure Fort Lauderdale firm, E.S.M. Government Securities, a dealer in U.S. Treasury bills and bonds. When customers of Cincinnati's Home State Savings heard that their bank stood to lose a whopping $150 million as an E.S.M. investor, they began withdrawing money so fast that banking regulators closed the institution. The panic then spread, because Home State's failure threatened to exhaust a private insurance fund of $130 million that covers deposits at 70 of Ohio's nearly 300 thrifts. Crowds of up to 1,000 people, some...