Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly should have been in the top two," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "We have the best record in the country. I think, however, we should have gotten the top seed, instead of Maine, because of our record. But the best of luck to them...
...committee chose Providence over Vermont because the Catamounts won only two of 10 games against tournament teams, while the Friars posted a 5-10-1 record...
...result of this outpouring of pride, black colleges have seen their endowments rising. The United Negro College Fund reported a record $44.1 million in contributions for its past fiscal year. Bill Cosby's announcement in November that he would donate $20 million to Spelman College, the Atlanta institution from which his daughter graduated, was another dollar sign of support from black parents...
Both sides in the dispute realize that a strike at the financially hemorrhaging carrier may finally send Eastern to "the corporate graveyard," as Lorenzo puts it. Eastern posted record losses of $335 million in 1988 and since then has been losing an estimated $1 million a day, a deficit that can only grow during the strike...
Despite commendable work on race relations and the support of black liberals like Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, statements like these -- and a generally conservative voting record -- could cripple Nunn if he seeks the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination. He considered running last year but pulled back primarily because his two children were still in school. "They'll have graduated by '92," says Bill Jerles, a Perry dentist and close friend. "Sam has those presidential thoughts in mind all the time...