Word: lions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coach Joe Bernal explained, "I'd rather establish that fact in the pool, and that's exactly what we did today." Indeed, the meet saw the Crimson winning the crucial events in order to build leads and dispel any thoughts of a Lion comeback...
...five minutes, Harvard lost its composure with a flurry of turnovers and series of poorly chosen just plain bad--shots. That, coupled with the timely pinpoint outside shooting of Lion guard Mark Settles and forward Mark Lay (18 and 11 points on the night respectively), ignited a Columbia rally which gobbled up a six point Harvard cushion and turned it into a 63-62 Columbia lead with 4.04 remaining...
Gregg, McKay, Knight & McKay, a pension boutique based in Avon, Conn., earned about 38% last year on $244 mil lion invested in fledgling firms, many of them high-technology ventures. Says Roy McKay, 40, one of the partners: "We are trying to be investors rather than trad ers. That's how the great families made money in the past. There's an electronic revolution going on, and it's generating vast opportunities for the creation of wealth...
...Last Lion by William Manchester. One award-winning biographer's highly charged, worshipful narrative of Winston Spencer Churchill's spectacular rise as soldier, author and politician...
...bidding at Sotheby's in London lasted only two minutes, but when it was over the 12th century illuminated German manuscript known as "The Gospels of Henry the Lion" had fetched a glittering $11.7 million, the highest auction price ever paid for a work of art. The pristinely preserved, 13½-in.-by-10-in. medieval masterpiece contains more than 1,500 exquisite illustrations and 41 full-page miniatures, but its value is not merely aesthetic to its new owners, a consortium of buyers that included the West German government. The acquisition, says Banker Hermann...