Word: getterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides being a steady point-getter in meets, Rainey has already captured the Crimson record in both the 200-meter run and the 50-meter dash. Her time of 24.50 in the 1988 Greater Boston Championships set the record for the 200-meter dash and she broke the 55-meter record with a 7.21 at last year's Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet...
...meter dash, Harvard runners Gino Patrizio and John Rowe placed second and third with times of 1:05.26 and 1:05.65 respectively, behind B.U.'s Randy Lewis (1:04.22). The race was a key point-getter as neither Northeastern nor Boston College placed...
...with the choice between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Nevertheless, not many of them opted for any of the 17 other candidates who were also vying for the White House. Unofficial figures for the third-party alternatives released last week by the Associated Press show that the top vote getter was Libertarian Ron Paul with 409,412, followed by the New Alliance Party's Lenora Fulani with 201,430. "None of the above" came in eleventh by earning 6,923 ballots nationwide. Trailing the pack: Third World Assembly nominee John Martin with 229 votes. Despite his low tally, Paul insists...
...case could be a turning point in the fortunes of Wall Street's most go- getter firm, the financing machine that drove much of the corporate raiding of the roaring 1980s. The complaint charged Milken and Drexel with a whole catalog of offenses, including fraud against the firm's own clients, insider trading, the "parking" of stocks to conceal their true ownership, and the destruction of accounting records to cover up the transgressions...
...kids love him. The adults love him. He's an attention getter," said Sergeant Richard Bongiorno, Officer Caring's immediate superior...