Word: scorecard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plenty of help from money and mud. Last week, with all but the final round of primaries out of the way, candidates across the nation were heaving away furiously at the splatterboard of state and regional politics, creating patterns of flecks and daubs that will become the 1984 election scorecard...
That voice was all the more compelling in this chaotic campaign. Nine candidates appeared on the ballot: seven were respected political figures. Unless you covered them for a living, or carried a scorecard. the rush to fill the White vacuum was dizzying...
Widespread praise for the council's accomplishments, though, has been tempered largely by the flip side of its initial scorecard: Recurring indications of the council's tendency to follow the quick-and-easy way of reacting to student concerns that has inevitably caused past student governments to fail. The most obvious symptoms were the council's endorsement this spring of several "political" positions. In responding to the call for Harvard to divest from holdings in businesses operating in South Africa and the Food Workers' Union demands during ongoing contract negotiations, the council supported groups without protracted debate, often basing...
...casual glance at the scorecard of this past intersession would indicate that all the previous successes of this year's Harvard wrestling team had been a fluke, a mere accident of scheduling. How could a previously undefeated team lose by a score of 36-6? And in their next match, how could they lose to a Wilkes College? Who the hell has ever heard of Wilkes College...
...tune our sensibilities to more graceful things. While people argue about their courage, usefulness and affection, the cat has its own game to play. Can it entice people to open their homes, refrigerators and hearts to it? The cat seems to be winning the contest. At half-time the scorecard reads: People 1, Meat-loaves...