Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only has last year's Palmer Dixon shocker left a sour taste in Crimson mouths, but aggressive Yale coach Steve Griggs has irritated just a few folks with his violations of unwritten rules about running a high-powered tennis program in the Ivy League...
...last night's ECAC semi-final shocker at Boston Garden, seventh-seeded Providence College whipped number one nationally-ranked powerhouse Boston University, 5-1. Boston College edged Brown 6-4 in the other semi-final contest...
...shocker. Or to use Hirsch's gobbledygook, we confront the "overwhelming implications of this status factor on social and economic policy...
...slide began early in the week, when both Exxon and U.S. Steel announced lower second-quarter earnings. Then on Wednesday came a shocker from Bethlehem Steel, which reported an operating loss of $75.4 million for the first half and cut its dividend. With that, the slide turned to slaughter: in frantic trading, the Dow plunged almost 20 points. For the week, it closed down 33 points, at 890.07, almost 10% below its January level...
...later that year the parent NLRB in Washington startled University administrators by agreeing to hear the union's appeal-an extraordinary development, and one that Steiner now says gave him the first indication that Harvard's position might not be invulnerable. Then last May, the NLRB delivered the real shocker, reversing the regional Board decision and ruling that the Med Area was a "separate community of interest" that District 65 legally could organize apart from the rest of the University campus. The Harvard attorneys, stunned by what they considered the Board's ignorance of precedent, saw their legal defense pared...