Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tiger Jay Lapidus, probably the country's best college player and the tournament's number one seed, nudged out Harvard's Don Pompan, seeded second, in the "A" finals, 6-2, 7-6. Both players qualified for the fall NCAA tennis championship...
Kevin "the Villain" Skelly, another freshman, further brightened the future for Harvard tennis as he captured first place in the "C" division, beating Tiger and top seed John Lowe in the semis and Lowe's teammate, Flip Ruben, in the finals, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2. Ruben previously had beaten Harvard sophomore Alex Seaver in the first round...
...founding mother of The New Yorker. She was also a gardener, a fiercely dedicated grubber of New England soil, an avid and acerbic consumer of seed catalogues. She had readjust about everything written about greenery and had strong opinions on every specimen from azalea to zinnia. So strong that Katharine S. White managed to sow in the least rustic of magazines a classic series of green thoughts: on herbs and weeds, trees and seeds, pedigreed blooms and wildflowers. Her articles were written with elegance and precision, and they deserve a place with such horticultural classics as Charles Sprague Sargent...
...Urban Development Action Grant program that is helping to save 327 distressed urban areas by encouraging private investment. To qualify for UDAG, a mayor must prove that his proposal has local business support and will create jobs. In the past two years, HUD has paid out $700 million in seed money that in turn has generated an investment of $4.1 billion in private funds. An unflappable official, the Baltimore born and bred Embry plans to return to local government after HUD. Says he: "The oldest cities may be the newest frontier...
Unfortunately for Digger, however, gas prices kept going up-and so did his blood pressure. Last week, only ten days into his stint, he was ordered unearthed by his doctor. "I'm convinced the seed I planted will be cultivated," proclaimed the haggard Digger. Then he headed back to Cumming, Ga., to tend to the tomatoes on his farm...