Word: seed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier, after a one-hour rain delay, Hana Mandlikova, the No. 3 women's seed, swept impressively into the second round with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over fellow Czechoslovakian, Iva Budarova...
...mini-series are made: A poor miner from a fallen family longs to marry the eldest daughter of a wealthy senator. But his beautiful bride-to-be dies before the wedding. Disconsole, the miner returns to his family's ancestral home, a once-great plantation which has gone to seed...
...Murdoch had thought about becoming a U.S. citizen since 1983, the prospect of the Metromedia deal made up his mind. The decision, nonetheless, was a difficult one. Born and raised in Melbourne, Murdoch inherited a pair of struggling newspapers in Adelaide from his father in 1952; from that puny seed grew Murdoch's $1.8 billion-a-year empire, which still has headquarters in Australia (see chart). Even Murdoch's mother, who lives near Melbourne, seemed taken aback. "It was quite a bit to swallow at first," says Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 76, "but that doesn't alter the fact that Rupert...
...4x100 relay squad of Catol Katon, Dele Fayemi, Sigrid Gabler and Theresa Moore turned in its best performance of the season, finishing way ahead of the second place Terriers. The toursome's time of 48.4 seconds should earn it at least the third seed in the Heps...
...defeat severely bruises Radcliffe's record and upsets its chances for a good seed in the Eastern Sprints...