Word: knightings
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Just about every bar, restaurant and dining room table in Wichita has played reluctant host to an impassioned debate on abortion this summer. "It's going to take some time to regain a center of gravity," says Mayor Bob Knight, displaying a 6-in. stack of angry letters on his desk. "The passions and feelings are so deep, and the city of Wichita has been criticized by everybody...
...smoke since 1985. Its first major information-service investment, a joint venture with McGraw- Hill to supply electronic data on prices and market activity to oil traders, flopped after a year. Earlier this year, Citi pulled the plug on a computerized information service aimed at grocery shoppers. Knight-Ridder lost about $50 million in a failed home-shopping service. And in its ambitious effort to make paper vanish, Wang Laboratories itself almost disappeared when it bet the ranch on manufacturing expensive document-scanning and imaging systems that nobody wanted. Says David Goulden, a Wang vice president: "The market's been...
Such fretting may be premature. So far, the computerized data business has been filled with a lot less profit than promise, largely because of consumer indifference. The growing list of disappointed entries includes ventures backed by Knight-Ridder, Times Mirror and Chemical Banking. Despite their advantage in size and expertise, say analysts, the newly freed Baby Bells could join the list...
Those "things" were namely Scarlet Knight defenders, who spent much of the afternoon at the mercy of the Crimson's revamped transition game and offense. Sophomore attacker Liz Berkery continued her scoring spree with three goals and the rest of the Crimson did its share of damage, battering the Rutgers goal until the final buzzer...
Unable to clear Golden Knight forward Mark Casselman from the slot, the Harvard defense was victimized at 18:30 of the second frame, when the 5'11", 190-lb. winger directed Captain Dave Tretowicz's slap shot into the corner of the net, tying the score...