Word: hoya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...League restaked its claim in the first round of this year's tournament, when Princeton took third-ranked Georgetown to the wire. If it weren't for two last-second blocks by Hoya center Alonzo Mourning, the Tigers could still be in the tournament...
...People took it the wrong way," says former member Christopher A. Donesa, who resigned as editor of the campus daily The Hoya following the controversy. "They thought we were meeting in closed rooms deciding the student body's fates...
Divested funds will be reinvested to create a portfolio free of South African ties without sustaining severe losses in the rate of return, Houston told The Hoya...
...news blackout is largely the work of Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoya, who took office in early 1986. Honduran officials have always been reluctant to admit that the contras launched attacks from Honduran soil, but Azcona has gone one step further by blocking access to camps on both sides of the border. Honduran soldiers guard the road from Las Trojes to the base inside Nicaragua, and the government has refused to issue passes to reporters. A few daring souls have sneaked into the camp by resorting to subterfuge or bush paths, but usually such ventures involve a grueling and dangerous...
...algae problem. Notre Dame's famous jocks are ossified as the Fighting Irish, though Hibernian-American athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget it. (For those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin cheer meaning "What rocks!," and tarheel...