Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Harvard team disappeared after the 10th game. Its replacement squad has played solid basketball, and has kept virtually every game close...
Part of the appeal to professionals is conformity. In the cold gray dawn of corporate America's morning after, it seems rude to look rosy in pink, which, along with other solid colors, is sliding out of favor. Says Chicago Accountant Edgar L. King, 68: "We financial types have to present a good, clean look, and I've traditionally relied on the white shirt to complement that look." The white shirt's popularity stretches down the career ladder too. Two years ago Charles McCabe traded in his college jeans and sneakers for something more suited to San Francisco's vested...
...winning chemistry with Massachusetts voters stems from a confidence in his intelligence and personal integrity. He has drawn top people into government. A Massachusetts politician who dislikes Dukakis acutely, says he has never in his 40 years seen a leader with a more solid moral base...
...were other setbacks. Alexander Fadeev, a Soviet skater who had been touted for the bronze, stumbled twice, enabling his younger teammate, Viktor Petrenko, to take the medal. And Canadian Kurt Browning braved the one quadruple jump of the Olympic competition, only to fall. U.S. Skater Christopher Bowman finished a solid seventh, and Teammate Paul Wylie, who recovered from two early spills to hand in a graceful performance, placed tenth...
...usual in dire times, U.S. fans adopted a Canadian. She was Karen ("No Mercy") Percy -- or so one Calgary sportswriter insisted -- a blond 21-year- old who stands a solid eleventh in World Cup rankings. She ran early and fast through stiff, changeable wind in the downhill. Among the stars who failed to touch her time were the glamorous Swiss rivals Maria Walliser, who finished fourth, and Michela Figini, Sarajevo's downhill winner, an ignominious ninth...