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Before becoming dean of Gallaudet's largest undergraduate department in 1986, Jordan, 43, served as a psychology professor at the school. He becomes the seventh president of the nation's only liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired...
Vermont, which had not made a trip to the ECAC Final Four in 13 years, had the largest crowd--several thousand strong--but the poorest finish...
Although the University of Vermont is located over four hours away from Boston, UVM had the largest crowd of any of the four schools participating in the ECAC Final Four...
...street-corner vendors who tempt passersby with "cashmere scarves" for $15. Fake cashmere shows up in major department stores, which are sometimes duped by unscrupulous importers. The counterfeit cloth can come from many parts of the world, but according to the C.C.I.A. and the Federal Trade Commission, the largest quantities are originating in Prato, Italy, a textile town near Florence. Cashmere from England and Scotland is above suspicion, since those countries have stringent regulations to combat counterfeiting...
...Soviet Union has one of the world's largest economies, but it operates on a simple principle: pay as you go. Soon, though, some Soviet denizens may utter the Russian equivalent of that time-honored phrase, "Charge it!" Visa International, the world's No. 1 credit-card issuer, last week won the right to offer the Soviet Union's first credit cards...