Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sports fan, a 1-4 record does not inspire confidence, but the character of the Harvard team might...
...NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships held here at the Indiana University Natatorium, Harvard Co-Captain David Berkoff captured his second NCAA championship in three years, grabbing the gold medal in the 100-yd. backstroke and setting another national record...
...Olympic gold medalist started outstrong, touching at the halfway point in a blazingtime of 21.85 seconds. In the second half, Berkoffgot even stronger, finishing in a time of 47.02seconds, more than three-tenths of a second fasterthan his old American and NCAA record of 47.33 andmore than a second ahead of the rest of the field...
President Bush's plan to bail out the savings and loan industry is getting little help from depositors, who are withdrawing their money at an inconvenient moment. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S & Ls, said last week that in January thrifts suffered a record monthly net-deposit outflow of $10.7 billion (total remaining S & L deposits: $964 billion). Because Bush's proposed $200 billion bailout package is to be financed in part from the thrifts' federal insurance premiums, which are based on the size of their deposits, the withdrawals could reduce that source of Government income...
...band's history may be pedestrian: Buck and Stipe met in the Athens record store where Buck worked; Berry and Mills, high school friends from Macon, Ga., fell in with the other two when they started school in Athens. Stipe's personal particulars (son of a nonmusical military family that moved a lot) may be unremarkable enough, which could account for his strenuous efforts to keep them from public consumption. But no band that makes music as spooky and splendid as Orange Crush and Hairshirt (two of Green's outstanding cuts) could ever be considered boring, not even potentially...