Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neither the smiling visage of Cal Ripken on the cover of Sports Illustrated nor a banner reading, "Thanks Fans" at the bottom of the Fenway scoreboard should persuade any fan that the ills which continually detract from the purity of sport are cured...
...until yesterday, not enough to beat Harvard. Last year, for example, both teams were essentially tied for the No. 6 rank in the country and faced each other in Hanover for the last sport in the six-team NCAA Tournament...
...expense to make free repairs on a faulty rear-door latch on older minivans--as well as a 7.2% decline in sales. Consumer Reports has grumbled about reliability problems on the 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Dodge Intrepid. And competition is getting tougher in the minivan, pickup and sport-utility fields that made Chrysler's revamped reputation. Though Eaton could still defend the numbers as "the second best pretax earnings we've ever had," that hasn't been enough to stop his company's shares from losing more than 20% of their value between January and mid-April...
...Mary M. Gaylord, the chair of RomanceLanguage and Literature Department, responded in aletter to the Globe: "Harvard-bashing has alwaysbeen a popular pastime, locally and nationally.Rather than seeking international participation(from Le Figaro) in this sport, I wouldhope that a responsible journalist might check hisinformation somewhere closer to home...
...such a spoil sport! They...