Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Coach Bill Cleary, who played on the 1960 U.S. goid-medal team, is not upset. In fact, he skips across the ice after the game and offers his congratulations to the Olympians...
Some shell. Today Stanford is home to 1,200 faculty members and 13,300 students. Its faculty and staff include nine Nobel laureates, eleven National Medal of Science recipients, eight MacArthur Foundation Fellows and six Pulitzer prizewinners. Stanford students have won 59 Rhodes Scholarships and 27 Marshall Scholarships. Among the university's illustrious alumni are Supreme Court Justices William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor; Football Stars Jim Plunkett and John Elway; Astronaut Sally Ride; TV Commentator Ted Koppel and -- would you believe? -- Harvard President Derek...
...political shilly-shallying were an Olympic sport, the South Korean electorate would enter this year's Summer Games in Seoul not only with the home-field advantage but with a good shot at the gold medal. Just eleven months ago, widespread protests forced the Democratic Justice Party to accede to election reforms that put its continuation in power at risk. In December, with opposition forces deeply divided, voters kept the incumbent party in office after all, electing Roh Tae Woo, 55, to a five-year term as South Korea's President. Last week the same voters, in a somewhat different...
Only two years ago, Allison brought disgrace to the K-School when he unilaterally decided to award a public service medal to Attorney General Edwin Meese III. The fundraising episode shows that, once again, Allison has not taken responsibility for his actions. By setting up an internal review, Bok evaded the real issue--Allison should resign, or Bok should fire him, before he has another chance to embarrass the school and the University...
Canada's hockey team at least got to the medal round, but a 5-0 loss to the U.S.S.R. deflated much of the country. Backup Goalie Rick Kosti was worried: "Next time they may just grab a bunch of National Hockey League guys at the last minute and see what they can do. Even if they're a great deal better, I don't think it will mean half as much to them as it did to us." Over the entire 16 days, the nearest Canada came to a gold medal was Figure Skater Brian Orser's second-place finish...