Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote grew out of the accident last year at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Even though Maine Yankee has a good safety record, nearby residents began to worry lest even a minor accident devastate the seacoast's $175 million-a-year tourist and fishing industries. Said former Congressman Stanley Tupper of nearby Boothbay Harbor: "There are 100,000 tourists here every summer. The only way to get all of them out would be by sea, and we could only do that if the Navy happened to have some ships in the vicinity." Led by Sculptor Raymond...
Just prior to the St. Louis tally, Gregg almost put the ball in the net and herself out of commission, when she met the ball, the goalpost and Polar Bear goaltender Cathy Leitch all at the same time. Both players were shaken up a bit, and Gregg sustained a minor shoulder injury, but stayed in the game to register the Crimson's second goal...
Take the heavyweight crews, for example. Minor things like Commencement do not deter Harvard's rowers from calling it quits, not after all the inertia built up over the course of the year. Men's heavy coach Harry Parker used to forbid senior oarsmen from accepting their diplomas in Cambridge; instead, he would personally hand them out at the team's training camp in Connecticut where the crew would be preparing for the all-important Harvard-Yale regatta...
Former Crimson baseball stars had good summers in the minor leagues. Rob Alevizos (7-0, ERA below 2.00 last season) was drafted by the Cubs, and was assigned to the Geneva, N Y., farm club in the Class A New York-Penn league. Mike Stenhouse'80 and Larry Brown '79 performed well in the Class A Florida State league, Sten with the Expos' organization and Brownie pitching with the Astros...
Unlike many minor leaguers, Alevizos won't be hurting if his baseball fortunes turn sour. Since last summer, he's been licensed to sell real estate--his off-season profession. Of course, he also has his Harvard degree...