Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students what the biggest team on campus is and the response will be unanimous--the men's ice hockey team, which last April brought Harvard its first NCAA championship since the golf team nabbed the crown in 1905. Minus Hobey Baker winner Lane MacDonald, Olympian Allen Bourbeau, a few other graduates and the hunger for that elusive national title, one can't expect the same from this year's squad...
...activist Mondale model of a Vice President far more than the invisible-man version perfected by Bush. The difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle and his advisers decided that inactivity...
...delegation at the Hyatt was hardly unique. Just across the way, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski was playing in a Bob Hope celebrity golf tournament and managing to squeeze in speeches to five special- interest groups. And just after New Year's Day, 18 Senators and their wives were flown to Scottsdale, Ariz., to play in a charity tennis tournament with executives of Dow Chemical, Citibank, Morgan Stanley and Motorola. The next weekend another group of Senators was schussing down the slopes in Park City, Utah, courtesy of American Express, Delta Airlines and U S West...
Congressional rules state that lobbyists cannot give members gifts worth more than $100. But the rule is offset by a loophole that allows legislators to accept airfare, hotel rooms and meals if attending a legislative conference, visiting a company plant or taking part in a celebrity golf or tennis tournament. A spouse or an aide can go along; children somehow slip in. Common Cause found that in 1987 Congressmen took eleven years' worth of free vacations courtesy of this proviso...
...Cross Country, W. 4 2 0 4th, Heptagonals Fencing, M. 5 6 0 3-3-0 Ivy (3rd) Fencing, W. 17 3 0 3-2-0 Ivy (3rd) Field Hockey 6 8 1 2-3-1 Ivy (4th-T) Football 2 8 0 2-5-0 Ivy (6th-T) Golf 3 8 0 2-3-0 Ivy (5th) Hockey, M. 31 3 0 20-2-0 ECAC (1st) Hockey, W. 15 8 1 8-1-1 Ivy (1st) Lacrosse, M. 7 7 0 2-4-0 Ivy (5th-T) Lacrosse, W. 14 1 0 6-0-0 Ivy (1st) Sailing...