Word: soled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, an ailing Crimson squad knee-dropped the Elis, 6-3, yesterday at sun-baked Beren Tennis Ceter. The victory, combined with Brown's 5-4 loss to Dartmouth yesterday in Hanover, N.H., left the Crimson (7-5 overall, 3-0 Ivy) in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League...
With Harvard's uncompetitive score of 1047, sophomore Robert Kincaid's team-leading and ninth-place overall score of 242 was the Crimson's sole bright spot. Archrival Yale placed four of its five in the top six overall...
...Actually, almost all corporations hold stockholder elections solely based on candidate resumes. Look at the "Notice of Annual Meeting" for Heinz, or Apple Computer, or Gillette. Resumes of nominated directors are always given, along with stock holdings. Most slates of directors run unopposed and are elected with unanimity. I have never seen a director candidate of an American corporation offer anything more, with the sole exception of rare proxy-battle situations such as the recent Lockheed/NL conflict. The amount of issue-based campaigning in Coop elections, weak though it is, is more than 99 percent of corporate elections...
...child, Conor (played by Brad West at age 12 and Arthur Wu at 16), survives and serves as the sole decent representative for the more barbaric sex. But his goodness seems to come from his mother and the influence of a chance meeting with the young Etain (Sian Heder), who is the namesake of Conor's mother. The extent to which the more developed Conor can be viewed positively is the extent to which he takes on more feminine characteristics...
...implicit criticism of Gorbachev, Defense Minister Yazov has counter- attacked on the issue of budget cuts. "It is economically groundless and politically shortsighted," he said recently, "to try to make the reduction of defense expenditures the sole method of liquidating the budget deficit and the resolution of all of today's social problems." He went further, arguing that a modernization that would shift the emphasis from mass-conscript armies to smaller forces with high-tech weaponry would cost more, not less. The idea of eventually dropping the draft and adopting a volunteer professional army is still opposed by most...