Word: runner-up
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...Bruins, last year's Ivy League champions, have never lost to the Crimson. So when Harvard--which finished as runner-up in the league last season--hosts Brown at Blodgett, the stakes will be high...
...been unofficially mentioned as a runner-up for nearly two decades. So when the Swedish Academy last week finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to French Novelist Claude Simon, 72, the news seemed both , inevitable and a little outdated. Simon had a period of modest renown during the 1950s and early '60s. Along with Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Michel Butor, he became a chief exponent of the French nouveau roman, a form of fiction that rigorously questioned traditional narrative devices. Reality, so the Gallic logic went, is not easy to read. Simon has proved himself just...
...Harvard wins the losers bracket, it gets to play the runner-up in the winners bracket. If it proceeds to win that game, the Crimson will earn a shot at the winner of the winners bracket for the championship...
...totaled $250 million. Under an enlightened 1968 law, the many heirs could pay in art rather than cash, and that is what they finally did, a decision that has given France, where the painter lived for 68 of his 91 years, the greatest Picasso collection in the world. (The runner-up: Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...majorities of both House and Senate have signed on as co-sponsors. Reagan will veto it, repeating dire warnings that U.S. protectionism could once again provoke foreign retaliation against what remains of American exports (which is plenty: the U.S. is still the world's biggest exporter by 27% over runner-up West Germany). Such retaliation is what happened after Congress passed the disastrous Smoot-Hawley tariff act in 1930 (see box). Just enough Senators and Representatives will change their minds on a revote to sustain the veto. Then will follow a confused struggle between legislators fearful of a trade...