Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first day of competition was held in an 11-team, round-robin format, with the Crimson smashing all seven of its opponents. Harvard bested Yale, Tufts, Brown, Boston College, Coast Guard, Navy and Dartmouth...
...Round robin action was finished up during day two--with less pleasing results for the Crimson sailors. Harvard was outraced by MIT, Connecticut College, and Boston University...
...Roll Hall of Fame that really gets the Jersey Devil's juices flowing. "If I have a dream commission, it is to design the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," says Badanes, mocking the manner of a politician at a press conference. His colleagues give him a rousing round of applause. "I mean, could you imagine a better job? We could do the walls in black pressed vinyl. And there'd be a lot of black-light posters around everywhere. Of course, we'd have to listen to records for months before tackling it. Research, gentlemen, research. And then...
...down to zero as well -- dismantling an entire class of weapons already deployed, in exchange for NATO's altering future plans. As members of the Administration themselves admitted at the time, it was like asking the Super Bowl champs to trade their All-Pro front line for two future-round draft choices. The result, predictably and perhaps intentionally, was no deal...
...banks, mutual funds and other institutions that manage IRAs, the challenge last week was to tell customers the difference between the new and old rules -- and to promote new clients. Fidelity Investments, an $80 billion Boston-based mutual-fund group, gave its round-the-clock crew of telephone operators special training in how to explain the new tax code to would-be investors. Citibank (1986 revenues: $144.8 billion) programmed computer terminals in 200 branches to answer questions about IRAs and responded to thousands of queries...