Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time this season, the Florida Gators, Swimming World Magazine's top pick for the gold in this year's race for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship, packed for home with only a third place finish while the truly Golden Bears from Cal Berkeley remained atop the collegiate swimming ladder with 234 points to 220 for runner-up Texas...
Eighteen years ago, when Murray Rose graduated from USC, the former Trojan swim hero did not look to his four Olympic gold medals for a quick boost up the ladder in the competitive world of mass media. Rose, who majored in communications, is one of those rare people who can say that their undergraduate careers prepared them for the future...
...title of "the opposition party." A complete severance of its ties with Moscow could make the party politically undistinguishable from its bourgeois opponent. Always on the defensive, the party follows a precarious path, extremely sensitive to the international political climate. Whenever the PCF begins to climb the electoral ladder, unexpected external events drop the party to the bottom rung. The party succumbs to a Sisyphian fate each time it bids for power...
...military spending, today. The simple realities of a domestic economy, not to mention other valid claims on government resources, rule out such a budget. It's naive, however, for anyone--anti-draft activist or Pentagon computer--to assume that such a huge war would not escalate up the nuclear ladder, from conventional warfare to "limited nuclear war" to Armageddon. If the planning to fight this conventional war in Europe means that the U.S. has given up the idea of nuclear deterrence altogether, then our military policy needs total rethinking, not just the cosmetics of draft registration...
...strong Crimson performance shows the depth that has developed over the course of the year. Aside from a handful of tough confrontations, the Crimson's most heated competition has come from its own ranks, in intra-squad ladder challenges...