Word: seed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other matches, Crimson second seed Erika Smith beat her opponent, 6-4, 6-1, while third-seeded Robin L. Boss, a freshman, won easily, 6-1, 6-0. Fourth-ranked Kathy Vigna won 6-2, 6-3, and fifth ranked Erica Schulman came from behind in the first set on the way to a 6-4, 6-3 win. Team Captain and sixth Crimson seed Debbie Kaufman was the only singles player to lose a set to a Terrier, taking a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 victory...
...American David Boyum, the second-ranked amateur in the nation and sixth seed in the tournament, playing at The Squash Club in the Allston section of Boston, upset top-seeded and ninth-ranked professional Jon Foster to win the open division. En route to the championship, Boyum defeated his teammate, roommate and fellow All-American, Richard Jackson, who had previously knocked off the 17th ranked professional and current Yale coach, Dave Talbott. Freshman Kevin Jernigan made it to the second round of the tourney...
Marc Rich is one of the shrewdest and most successful commodity traders in the world. Acquaintances estimate his personal fortune at up to $1 billion. After starting his own firm in 1974 with about $5 million in seed money, Rich built a group of companies that last year traded some $10 billion worth of such commodities as oil, gold, aluminum, sulfur and sugar...
John R. Funk, a retired seed-corn executive and president of the George Ade Memorial Association, comes on the line with directions to the old Ade estate as if it blocks out more Indiana sky than a grain elevator. "Two miles east of Brook, on Indiana 16," he says, neglecting to say there is no interstate exit for Brook, nor for Highway 16, and not saying, too, that the signs at the town of Brook proclaim a population of 914 and a ban on peddlers and solicitors, but do not mention Ade. Found in the flesh, Funk, a courtly study...
...name is Mary. She is 34 years old and lives in a suburb of New York City. With her neatly tailored beige suit, pink designer blouse and necklace of seed pearls, she has the well-scrubbed preppie look of someone who has had a safe, comfortable life. When she begins to speak, the words seem strange, as if they belong to some other person...