Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conglomerates, should be pleased by these new arrangements. For years, officials in the book business complained that the National Book Awards refused to acknowledge the growth of popular reading habits. In 1971, for example, N.B.A. judges angered sponsoring publishers by rejecting Erich Segal's Love Story as too lightweight for consideration...
...bright side, the size of the latest blowout implies a major new find by Pemex. Director General Jorge Diaz Serrano estimates that the immediate area contains as much as 800 million bbl. of top-quality lightweight crude and "will considerably increase Mexico's oil reserves." Before this strike, the country's proven reserves of oil and gas stood at the equivalent of 40 billion bbl., well above those of both Venezuela and Nigeria but still far below Saudi Arabia's 160 billion bbl. Though Mexico is not a member of OPEC, it took a page from...
...undefeated junior varsity lightweights win their event and the varsity finishes a disappointing third in the Eastern Sprints in Worcester; but the performance is good enough to gain Harvard the Jope Cup, signifying the best overall lightweight performance in the Sprints...
...varsity lightweight boat that had come to Worcester screaming "No prisoners" louder than ever and vowing revenge for the May 6 loss to Yale, was just one of four boats that could not make up the difference. After rowing furiously hard through the middle 1000 meters of their race, the lights fell victim to exhaustion in the closing sprint. The Elis took an obnoxiously comfortable win while hard-charging Princeton closed with a flourish that left Harvard third...
...They came back because they were in such incredible condition," J.V. cox Alexandra Dixon recalls. From that shaky start, Harvard's only undefeated crew for 1979 just continued the uphill climb. As J.V. six seat and team captain Jeff Cooley says, "It seems like J.V. lightweight crews at Harvard are destined...