Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Penn State: The Nittany Lions have been bogged down in the third position for the past three seasons but feel that this could be the year to jump up to the top spot. The squad is led by senior Dave Rafferty, who should contend for titles in the 200 freestyle and butterfly events...
...Crimson (24-2 overall, 20-2 ECAC) shares the top spot with Minnesota (31-8-3). Harvard and the Gophers were tied for second place last week...
...demand. Though roughly half the guests at any given time are there on business, they still seem willing to spend whatever free time and discretionary income they have on making their trip memorable. "There's an ego boost in going home saying 'We took a helicopter to a remote spot and had a picnic just for two,' " observes Patrick Cowell, a regional vice president of Hyatt Resorts Hawaii and the hotel's managing director. "Can't you imagine that kind of story in the Des Moines bridge circle...
...half an hour, the dolphin encounter strikes many guests as a bargain -- enough, at least, to ensure that there is usually a waiting list for a spot on the dock. Reservations at the restaurants are also hard to come by when the hotel is full, but the relentlessly eager staff has invented a solution: Vacations by Design. Upon arrival, guests check off all the activities and restaurants they want to try, and the Aloha Services staff will make all the reservations and print up a schedule. "And you know what?" says manager Cowell. "This will be happening in most resort...
Ever since the bodies of more than 4,000 Polish officers were found in 1943 in the Katyn forest, near the Soviet city of Smolensk, their fate has been a disturbing blank spot in Polish history. Moscow has maintained that the cold- blooded killings were carried out by the Nazis after they invaded the U.S.S.R. in 1941. But Poles have long suspected that the officers were executed and buried in mass graves by Soviet forces...