Word: sportif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manufacturers estimate the U.S. bike- clothing market at $30 million and say it is growing by 25% annually. The suppliers include more than 50 companies, from Japan's Descente and France's Le Coq Sportif to America's Protogs, Cannondale and L.L. Bean. Some 60% of the 6,500 bicycle shops in the U.S. now carry clothing next to the tubes and pumps, as compared with only about one-third ten years...
Soon the winter comes, with reading period hot on its tail. The truly sportif, however, remain undaunted. Many folks come to Harvard unschooled in the joys of college hockey, but one winter usually enlightens them This is not the NFL--no fighting here. Rather, it is clean, fast, exciting hockey and Harvard has a grand tradition. Times had been lean until last year, until the icemen (as they are known in Crimson headlines) pulled off the upset of the year in the Beanpot, the annual Boston-area collegiate championship at the Boston Garden. Coach Bill Cleary's boys should improve...