Word: soled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captain Robin Boss was Harvard's sole loser on the day, dropping a 6-4, 7-6 (10-8) decision to Dartmouth's Kelly Busby. Overall, however, the Crimson snagged 15 of the 20 total sets played...
...imprisoned since 1962, and Oliver Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites received approving nods, from the opposition politicians Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Helen Suzman to Communist Party Chief Joe Slovo, the sole white member of the ANC executive committee. But most surprising of all, State President P.W. Botha turned up in 14th place...
...general rule among the ancient eight is that seniors are awarded an advantage over other students in the lottery, and it is often said that students endure misconveniences in early year, waiting for payday when they are upperclassmen. Cornell is the sole exception to this rule, where seniors are given no advantage over underclassmen in the lottery system...
...Harley-Davidson motorcycle, the beast of the roads, is again growling at the head of the pack. Four years ago, the sole remaining U.S. motorcycle manufacturer was skidding toward bankruptcy and was saved only because the Government slapped a steep tariff on big Japanese bikes. After a swift comeback, the Milwaukee-based firm was able last week to make an unprecedented move: it asked the Administration to drop the tariff. "When we needed help, the Government gave it to us, but we didn't need it anymore," said Vaughn L. Beals, Harley-Davidson's chairman...
...home-economics texts purvey man-centered views at the expense of belief in God, enjoined use of the books in any class except a "comparative-religion course that treats all religions equivalently." The next day school officials in Mobile called in the books, including the eleventh grade's sole history text...