Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, for several years now, they've relied on corporate sponsorship of various kinds, but the regatta itself, I don't think I would use the term that it's commercialized at all. The sponsorship part of it is not very intrusive. It's still very much the Head of the Charles, a very amateur event, if you will. But they clearly are much better organized, and they tap into a lot of resources, it's a big job to put on a regatta, it's a huge...
Rodney Pratt, head coach of the B.U. men's heavyweight crew, comments on his program saying, "Being a coach, you realize you're not in control of everything--it's all an illusion. I would like to beat everybody but I don't think we have a chance to beat the national teams with such a young boat." Pratt is racing a championship eight and four and some club boats, and is unsure about the preparation of his boat. Captain Rob Rogers is excited to have "big guys this year" because last year they had four lightweights in the boat...
...With only one senior on the boat, MIT's men's championship eight is a fairly young team. Head coach Gordon Hamilton decides the members of his boats through ergometer testing, and puts his crew on the machines frequently. "We have absolutely no chance of winning," he says. "I hope we can beat a couple of the crews who beat us last year. We just barely lost to Cornell and Dartmouth last year and I'd like to beat B.U., Columbia and Rutgers." The women's coach, Susan Lindholn, has been pushing her regimen hard. She too does...
...Head Coach Buzz Congram has four goals for the men's program: to beat Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn. With a young team expected to start fourth or sixth, "we're looking to test ourselves and have a really great row." The two juniors, five seniors and senior captain Gracio Garcia make up "by far one of the strongest boats I've rowed in," according to Garcia. Congram is hoping to train his young champ four of one junior and three sophomores for future victories, and he looks forward to the Head of the Charles "to compete with the international...
...Wednesday set off a night of rioting, said she would take the job for "for the sake of the nation." Her path was cleared by an apparent consensus among the political elites that saw the withdrawal of two key rivals, armed forces chief General Wiranto and Akbar Tandjug, the head of former president B. J. Habibie's Golkar party. She also has the backing of newly elected President Abdurrahman Wahid...