Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tailback Rich Comizio (the league's second-leading rusher in '85), fullback Chris Flynn (1985 Rookie of the Year), and quarterback Jim Crocicchia all return to their starting roles of a year ago and together make up the most solid backfield in the Ivies...
...Robert Kennedy's. After completing an academic career that included stints at three colleges (he finally graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Boston), Kennedy founded a nonprofit corporation called Citizens Energy Corp., which provides inexpensive heating fuel and prescription drugs to low-income families. Citing his company's solid success in almost every speech, Kennedy mixes '60s liberalism with '80s pragmatism. His message is one of populist entrepreneurship, but Bachrach told the New York Times that Kennedy is the "candidate of the right in this race," fighting words in a district that went overwhelmingly for Walter Mondale...
...very special girls -- not extremely beautiful or extremely intellectual, but attractive and smart -- pretty stable, and altogether satisfactory. Through work-study programs, loans and scholarships, they both acquired a fairly good basic education. One teaches, the other is a health educator with our local health department. Both have apparently solid and satisfactory marriages. The older one has two little girls, the younger has a new little daughter...
...five-year terms as minister-president of his native North Rhine-Westphalia, faces an uphill battle for the chancellorship. Polls taken before last week's congress gave Kohl's conservative-liberal coalition 51%, a ten-point lead over the S.P.D. The Chancellor's main source of strength is a solid economic record that, despite high unemployment, boasts zero inflation, a 3.5% growth rate and a $25 billion trade surplus during the first six months of the year. In personal appeal, Rau, who married only four years ago, has two young children and whose wife is expecting a third, might have...
...soon the Lauren look began to catch on. The designer quickly became something of a champion for well-bred suburbanites who felt manipulated by European couturiers. "Nobody is impressed with elaborate clothes anymore," he declared in 1974. "A girl who is solid doesn't want to be known as a fashion lady." Today his quietly elegant womenswear collections bring in about $210 million at retail...