Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...penalty kick in the final two minutes of play dashed the Harvard Rugby Club's hopes of heading to Philadelphia for the Eastern Championships as it fell to rival University of Massachusetts in a neck-and-neck 13-12 battle...
...split it while praying in church some years ago. He had to get a special dispensation from the state legislature to wear his overalls in the house and the senate, and here he can be seen this time of year, prowling the corridors with a compass dangling from his neck. "There's no sun in the legislature," he explains. "You can't tell where you're going." In this state, as in so many others, the old majestic capitol building has been abandoned by the legislature for a new seat of government that does not suggest democracy...
...case began on Nov. 8,1980, when a white police officer, Gregory Neupert, 23, was found dead, shot in the neck in a predominantly black neighborhood of the Algiers section of New Orleans. The police mounted a furious probe, in the course of which four blacks were killed by investigators under circumstances that are still not entirely clear. Then Police Superintendent James Parsons resigned. Grand juries were convened to investigate the killings and consider allegations of police beatings of three blacks and one white in order to obtain leads and evidence in the Neupert case...
...that power from nuclear plants is still less expensive overall: 2.7? per kwh, vs. 3.2? from coal-fired plants and 6.9? from oil. Detractors argue that the statistics give unfair weight to ultracheap power from old nuclear plants. For its part, the Department of Energy puts coal and nuclear neck and neck in price...
RECOVERING. Marvin Mitchelson, 54, celebrity divorce lawyer and palimony pioneer; from broken ribs and a sprained neck received when his Rolls-Royce was hit by a Mercedes-Benz and knocked into a utility pole; in Los Angeles. His recuperation was undoubtedly speeded by the award last week to one of his clients, Dena al-Fassi, of the largest divorce settlement ever granted: half the claimed $6 billion fortune of her ex-husband, Saudi Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi...