Word: sporting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local farmer who had been pestered by bears getting into his feed corn. Had to shoot two last year, he said. A fish-and- game-commission biologist said, "Rather than have farmers kill the bears, we would rather have sportsmen utilize the resource." You get used to blood- sport bureaucratese; "utilize,"or "harvest," is what you do when you get something fuzzy and four-footed in your sights. As in most states, New Hampshire's fish and game policies often seem to be caught in a time warp, perhaps in the decade of the 1820s, when subsistence hunting...
...face lights up like a flashbulb when the sport is mentioned...
Approximately 20 percent of all MIT undergraduates, compete in at least one varsity sport. Since 1980, more than 75 MIT students have received All-American honors in 15 different sports, and six have earned Academic All-American honors. MIT coaches have won national or regional Coach of the Year honors in at least 10 sports...
...Harvard men's water polo has indeed dramatically improved since Griffin was a freshman in 1985, the second year of the Crimson's existence as a varsity sport...
...season, Coach Nita Lamborghini gave her lemon a fuel injection. She recruited reliable center back Erin O'Brien to shore up her porous defense. Explosive forwards Sharon Landau and Cutone were brought in to add scoring punch to a lackluster offense. And three-sport superstar Char Joslin was an instant hit, nabbing All-Ivy honors her first season...