Word: lightweight
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Holtz avoided a lifetime sentence in the mills and went off to Kent State, where he played as a lightweight and little-noticed linebacker. After graduation, he learned his craft as a ubiquitous assistant coach in a succession of schools: Iowa, William and Mary, Connecticut. But it was after accepting a job at the University of South Carolina, only to watch helplessly as the position was temporarily eliminated, that Holtz began to lay out the rest of his life with some purpose. He made a list of 107 things he wished to accomplish, naturally including leading the Fighting Irish...
...16th century. But it was not until this century that making things smaller became a matter of military and economic survival. Spurred by the cold war and the space race, U.S. scientists in the late 1950s began a drive to shrink the electronics necessary to guide missiles, creating lightweight devices for easy launch into space. It was the Japanese, though, who saw the value of applying miniature technology to the consumer market. In his book Made in Japan, Akio Morita tells how he proudly showed Sony's $29.95 transistor radio to U.S. retailers in 1955 and was repeatedly asked...
...York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato may be considered a lightweight on serious affairs of state, but when it comes to taking care of constituents, he is in a class by himself. After narrowly capturing the seat of the highly respected but terminally ill Senator Jacob Javits in 1980, the "Pothole Senator" easily won re-election in 1986 as a first-rate fixer who answers phone calls and delivers goodies to the home front. Said an admiring colleague: "He works harder than any Congressman...
...Harvard women's crew teams will also face some tough competition in Sunday's races. The Crimson has entered crews in the championship eight and the championship four races, along with a lightweight eight, a light four and a youth eight...
...Club Singles 9:00 a.m. Club Fours 9:30 a.m. Club Eights 9:55 a.m. Veteran's Singles 10:30 a.m. Youth Fours 10:55 a.m. Grand Master Singles (40 and over) 11:30 a.m. Youth Eights 12 noon Senior Master Singles 12:30 p.m. Lightweight Fours 1:00 p.m. Master Singles 1:30 p.m. Lightweight Eights 1:55 p.m. Lightweight Singles 2:25 p.m. Championship Doubles 2:55 p.m. Championship Double 2:55 p.m. Championship Fours 3:25 p.m. Championship Singles 4:00 p.m. Championship Eights...