Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ahead for the first time thanks to Panther mistakes, winning three straight points to establish an 11-8 advantage. This time it was Pitt's turn to come back as two short spikes and a dink forced an 11-11 deadlock. Sophomore Jon Ross's inside salvo and a smart defensive play by senior Captain Brad Martin gave Harvard a 12-11 lead. But strong Panther serves threw the Crimson off balance and Pitt captured the next four points to take the first stanza...
...outsider it seemed less a life than a perfect lifestyle: tree-lined California suburban street, tasteful $150.000 home (with piano), two sunny youngsters. Phil, 37, was a $30,000-a-year microchip sales engineer in Silicon Valley; Rita. 34, was a $20,000-a-year bookkeeper. Like their smart, attractive Northern California friends. Phil and Rita played tennis and ate interesting foods and knew about wine and, starting four years ago, sniffed coke...
...always easy, of course, to tell oneself that "everyone" is doing what one secretly wants to do. It is easy to say that this is what the smart people are doing, the winners, the people who know how to beat the system. Easy but wrong. People who lie and cheat on their taxes are neither smart nor winners; they are simply cheats and liars. In the end, the money that they steal is not being stolen from a faceless government; it is being stolen from their honest neighbors who as a result must pay not only their own taxes...
...Training is difficult, but preparing as a club brings out a good spirit." Michael W. Smart '84, one of three Winthrop residents who founded the group, said yesterday. The griffin is Winthrop's mascot...
...When a marathon is two to three months away, it's difficult to get psyched," Smart explained. "Training with 15 or 25 others makes it a lot easier. The club take the seriousness out of something hard...