Word: player
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Captain Diana Edge, the only player to advance beyond second-round competition, won the Consolation round of the tournament...
...tourney, Co-Captain Russ Ball reached the finals before dropping a 3-2 decision to Scott Dulmage, Western Ontario's number-one player. Officially Ball lost to Dulmage in five games. But it was a pulled muscle that really did in the senior...
Ball waltzed to the finals, dropping only one individual game and that was a tie-breaker. After dropping the first game, 17-15, to Western Ontario's number-two player, Marc Barber, Ball captured the next three games...
...senior then crushed the nation's number-one player, Princeton's Jeff Stanley, in three games, 18-15, 15-12, 15-14. Stanley, who last week lost in three games to Harvard's Darius Pandole, has not won a game against Harvard since January...
...with the institutions that employ them. Nowhere was this more true than at the elite investment firm of First Boston, where the duo of Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella created a mecca for merger-and-acquisit ion advice. Owing largely to their prestige, First Boston was the busiest takeover player on Wall Street last year, handling an estimated 174 deals. Serving as masterminds in some of the biggest corporate struggles of the decade, the two men have sparred with raiders ranging from T. Boone Pickens to Carl Icahn and have invented strategies like the "Pac-man" defense, in which...