Word: pac
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...rated status. The about-face represents a transparent attempt to find a rationalization for money-mongering. Presented with the choice of losing the 61 high-powered football programs which composed the fledgling College Football Association (including all big-time teams except the Big Ten and the Pac-10 conferences) or bowing to their pressure, the NCAA backed down and buckles under sight of the fact that the NCAA should be first an educational organization and second a commercial interest group...
...schools, which include most of the nation's football powers except members of the Big-10 and Pac-10 conferences, have threatened to sign a television contract with NBC. The NCAA already has a contract jointly with...
Despite the internal dissent, the movement as a whole has become a very powerful political force, particularly at the state level. According to Peter Gemma, director of the National Pro-Life PAC, some $2 million was spent in the 1980 campaign by the hundred or so local and national antiabortion political action committees. But, he notes, "our real strength is in the grass-roots volunteers we can mobilize on behalf of a candidate." Says the direct mail consultant Richard Viguerie, a leading New Right strategist: "The guy who publishes the little anti-abortion newsletter in places like Iowa is very...
Rose Bowl, January 1, at Pasadena: Will Bo Schembechler's 9 2 Michigan Wolverines finally break the bowl jinx against Pac-5 winner Washington...
...addition to the significance of defeating an opponent that had knocked off Pac-10 power California earlier this season, the victory raised Harvard's record to a perfect 3-0 and extends the team's winning streak to five, its longest since...