Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NCAA Division I hockey rankings were released yesterday, and Harvard remains in the number- two spot for the third straight week...
Kaplan and junior Ken Johnson paced the Crimson with two individual victories apiece. Kaplan snagged the top spot in both the 50- and 100-yd, freestyle races, with sophomore Greg Tull right behind in each to give Harvard 1-2 finishes in both sprint freestyle races. Johnson handled a difficult triple duty with ease, grabbing the gold in both the 1000 and 500 freestyle races and picking up third place in the 200 butterfly...
Senior Patrick Healy snagged the one-meter diving competition and placed second on the three-meter board. His scores earned him a spot in the NCAA qualifying meet next month in Pennsylvania...
...Harrison and others. But while Rick Bass, 30, a Southerner who now lives in Montana, can fight the bears with the best of them, there are more unusual reasons to praise him. His writing is so assured that he can do handkerchief tricks on the page. Just try to spot the magic. His characters, mostly country people, along with some layabout Houstoners ("We drank margaritas as often as we could stand it"), are portrayed with rare tenderness; Bass is even tolerant of his blackhearted men. The title story is the most ambitious, a frightening descent into deep Southern swamps...
...Kenyan's comments were not quite as advertised. According to an anthropologist at the University of Cincinnati, who saw the spot when it aired on NBC, the new pitchman was actually saying, "I don't want these. Give me big shoes." Nike contends that an earlier script called for the tribesman's ironic comment, but the company decided in the end to stick with its slogan in the subtitle. Nike plans to keep running the spot during TV specials, so viewers will still have an opportunity to brush up on their...