Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's diving turned out to be as strong as ever as it swept its events, too. Sophomore standout Jennifer Goldberg took the three-meter event and freshman Shanon Byrd walked away with the one meter event...
...turning point of the meet came in the three-meter diving, where Harvard's Jennifer Goldberg bounced back from a surprising B.U. victory in the one-meter event to take top honors. Teammates Sharon Daly and Missy Karas completed the sweep of the first three places...
...Vienna, almost everyone who counted in music and the government had shown up for American Conductor Lorin Maazel's long-awaited first performance after taking over as director. Then, 35 minutes into Tannhauser, the lead tenor, East Germany's Reiner Goldberg, dropped his harp and mumbled, "My voice-I can't go on." He then disappeared into the wings, leaving a stunned Venus alone in her grotto...
...silence onstage was matched by that in the audience, but there was loud applause when an opera official announced that Bulgarian Spas Wenkoff would step into the role. Wenkoff had been hurriedly flown in that very day after Goldberg's cover caught the sniffles. When Wenkoff too seemed unsteady during the third act, the ailing understudy was summoned to the opera house. Nonetheless, Wenkoff made it to the end. It was just as well. "Three tenors in one performance" mused one dedicatee fan, "That would have been the end of the world...
...vary widely. Moreover, there is no ready resale market for diamonds. After buying stones at retail, individuals usually find that they can be sold back to jewelers and diamond dealers only at the wholesale price, which is normally 50%-or even less than 50%-of retail. Says William Goldberg, president of the Diamond Dealers Club, the leading U.S. diamond traders association: "Diamonds are like real estate. My home is a terrific investment until I go to sell...