Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wingers are, the Sabres still have some way to go. The other Buffalo lines lack scoring punch, the defense is inconsistent and the team has done poorly on the road -all of which means that the Sabres are unlikely to win the Stanley Cup this year. But with the proven quality of the French Connection and Imlach's building skills, Buffalo may soon be challenging the old, established N.H.L. teams for pro hockey's biggest prize...
Guilty. Reliability aside, polygraph opponents argue that forcing employees to take lie-detector tests is unfair and degrading. Next month, the American Civil Liberties Union will publish a report contending that employee testing by polygraphy violates the constitutional principle that a citizen is presumed innocent until proven guilty and constitutes "an illegal search and seizure of the subject's thoughts, attitudes and beliefs." Says John Shattuck, a co-author of the report: "It is logically impossible to determine whether polygraph testing at a particular company is voluntary or a condition of employment, so all pre-employment use should...
There appear to be no outstanding prospects from the freshman defensive corps who will move right up. With the exception of Noonan, who has proven himself a solid defenseman, there won't be much experience in front of the goaltender. This brings us to the final and most important problem: Who's minding the nets...
...hockey (not to mention individual sports) have managed to find the time and energy to thrust their respective teams into national prominence, while also achieving individual success in the classroom. Although this "success" is in some cases questioned, the fact that many devoted and successful Harvard athletes have also proven themselves as academic standouts shows that Bozek's supposedly irreconcilable conflict can be resolved. Further, these examples are proof that the academic achievement of students involved in "professional" sports at Harvard is totally contingent upon individual motivation and unaffected by the pressures of "big-time" athletics...
...play winning basketball, but merely to enjoy playing. He has added nothing but the element of frustration to the experiment he was hired to guide. He too, like the players, has been cheated by the unworkable situation of "big-time-basketball" and "academia," but unlike the players he has proven himself to be talentless as a coach, and detremental to any basketball program, be it amateur...