Word: sellouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against the PRC's national team, the cagers stayed close until a late first half splurge by the Chinese. But for a team which had an 11-15 won-lost slate this season (6-8, fifth place in the Ivies). Harvard registered solid performances before sellout crowds of up to 18,000 (10,000 at lowest) and several large T.V. audiences...
...Salvador from their internal enemies. On other issues, too, he remains deliberately vague. He supports Israel more vociferously than any other candidate, but he has not let himself be drawn into a debate over specific diplomatic options in the Middle East. He has decried the Carter Administration's "sellout" of Taiwan and hinted he might set up an official U.S. presence there, but he has carefully avoided saying he would re-establish full diplomatic relations with Taipei...
...makes as much sense as having a member of GM's management sitting on the board of an international union." Some rank-and-file members of Eraser's own union remain suspicious about his getting too close to management. "I'm afraid it's a sellout," said Maye Lean Amos, a sewing-machine operator at Chrysler's Detroit auto-trim plant. Some union leaders meeting in Washington last week for their regular spring session were sympathetic to the "special circumstances" of Eraser's appointment. But most supported AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, who says...
...later became music director for Playwright Noel Coward, Mantovani was little known outside of Britain until 1951, when he created his silken "shimmering strings" effects and recorded the waltz Charmaine. The recording, monomaniacally promoted by a Cleveland disc jockey, triggered a Mantovani craze that turned his American concerts into sellout affairs and seven albums into gold (more than half a million of each were sold). Said the purveyor of Greensleeves, Misty and Moulin Rouge: "Perhaps 25% of the people like the classics, and about 25% like the Beatles. I aim to please the 50% in the middle...