Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson (21-4 overall, 12-1 Ivy) will face Dartmouth Tuesday night at Briggs Cage for the outright Ivy title. Dartmouth's 51-49 squeaker over Yale in Hanover Saturday night gave the Big Green a chance to tie for the crown with a win over Harvard...
Poker players rejoice when they detect a fish -- a cheerful, tireless, well- funded loser -- radiating stupidity from across the green felt. Poker, of course, is a low pastime, whereas investment counseling, stockbroking and commodities trading are honorable professions. Still, suggests amateur Investor John Rothchild in this wry and funny confession, the professional gents and ladies of the financial markets are by no means reluctant to gnaw underachieving seafood when it presents itself...
...Inman-Ebel speaks perfect television-anchor talk, one of those serviceable voices from nowhere. She is a slim, freckled redhead with blue eyes and tight little muscles at the corners of a big smile. She dresses for success, has two kids at home, and holds a yellow belt with green tips in Taekwondo. The license plate on her car says I CAN, and she is inclined to say things like "Y'all can too." (She notes that her parents originally came from east Tennessee, and the occasional Southernism makes clients more comfortable...
...York City, reported attacks on gays, probably a tiny fraction of the total, jumped from 176 in 1984 to 517 last year. While homosexuals have always been a target of abuse, gay activists attribute the rising violence to the AIDS epidemic and a conservative backlash. "AIDS has provided a green light to the bashers and the bigots," says Kevin Berrill of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "It's a convenient excuse for those who hate...
Falwell, of course, was none too happy. The court, he said, had "given the green light to Larry Flynt and his like to print what they wish about any public figure at any time with no fear of reprisal." Flynt, always a blunt instrument, has put it more inelegantly: "I think that the First Amendment gives me the right to be offensive." And, to protect more important things, it does...