Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witness the Crimson's youth. Freshmen Mary Hulbert and Diane Staley have monopolized the top two positions on Harvard's ladder this year, and captain Courtney Stimpson, playing at number six, is the only senior on the seven-man varsity squad. Then there is the nucleus of the team, a talented corps of sophomores and juniors, including Jackie Corrigan, Laura Kaye, Lisa Harrison, and Lili...
Fielding its strongest team in recent memory, the Crimson began the 20-team tournament by whipping Brown for the second time in as many months, this time by 6-1. The middle of Harvard's ladder, from number-two Diana Staley to number-six Courtney Stimpson coasted to easy straight-set wins Mary Hulbert and Lili Pew encountered more difficulty at numbers one and seven, respectively...
...Neapolitan Way finished a heroic second in the Preakness despite a cut leg. However much this endeared him to his owner and trainer at the time, his next proprietors were not as moved, and the ones after that probably never thought of it. The old campaigner tumbled down the ladder until, by Preakness day two years ago, he was reduced to cheap $14,000 claimers. With time out for bowed tendons, Neapolitan Way is still running up mileage...
...district court decision is the lowest rung on the legal ladder. If a request for reconsideration is denied by Sherman, the city represented by new lawyers will likely ask for a stay first from district court and then from Superior Court...
...completely corrupt," says Bob Cousy, the great Celtics guard who coached at Boston College from 1963 through 1969. "When the example has been set by institutions, impressionable kids get the idea. Do it any way you can. Get the grade, get the votes, get to the top of the ladder-get the money. Should we be surprised if in the basketball games at school-or three or four years down the line in business-they follow those guidelines along the road of least resistance? We teach them how the game is played...