Word: match
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard defeated Cornell and Dartmouth, while capturing a 5-4 victory over Princeton and a 6-3 decision against Penn. The Crimson lost a tough 5-4 match to Yale, which won the scrimmage tournamnet...
Harvard will open its season tonight against Trinity. In last year's match, the Crimson recorded a 5-4 decision...
...their likes and dislikes: Does he like reggae? Does she like Rostropovich? "I try to introduce two people who are so similar to each other that when the going gets rough, they can fall back on their similarities. If a client likes to sail, he's a poor match for a woman who gets seasick...
...origins of matchmaking go back to antiquity, springing from the custom, once common in Europe and the Orient, of arranged marriages. Even today in the U.S. the Old World custom persists: Manhattan marriage broker Dan Field says he is often consulted by parents who want him to arrange a match for their children. But what is becoming more common in the U.S. is the gold-card matchmaker for the affluent among those 43 million unmarried Americans between 18 and 44. "Across America," says San Francisco matchmaker Barbara Tackett, "there are people making $35,000 a year who will...
Every month Stern, who herself was married this year, spends a week selecting possible matches for her clients, trying to find a pattern of likenesses, rather like assembling a multidimensional jigsaw puzzle. Much of the rest of her time is spent advising on anxieties of the heart: most members are very definite about a potential partner's height, build and age. Already members have gone through a fairly rigorous selection process: they must have incomes over $30,000 a year (unless they are students) and have a university degree (self-made people excepted). All are questioned about sexual diseases, particularly...