Word: springs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several people told me that I should "move up" after covering the same teams for a couple of years. But like I always told them, I think volleyball is the best beat in the fall, squash in the winter and tennis in the spring. This may sound conceited, but I believe I was covering the best beats...
...banks of the Charles the day before, the Harvard and Radcliffe heavyweight crews continued to show why they were the best crews in the nation this spring. The Black and White ripped past Yale for the Case Cup. The Crimson nipped Penn and Navy for the Adams...
...which could mean weak growth but little pain, to the ominous prospect of a deep recession. Few seers doubt, however, that a slowdown is at hand. "This has been a long expansion," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Company Economic Advisors, a leading consulting firm. "But the spring...
There's no mayor, no water system, not even a stoplight. But each winter, tiny Quartzsite, Ariz., grows to absorb 200,000 people, only to shrink again come spring. What attracts the snowbirds...
...million and 5.8 billion, respectively) and an astounding number of others are to be found in a factual gold mine called the Statistical Abstract of the United States, a 984-page volume packed full of figures from the mundane to the delightful. First published in 1878, the Abstract each spring sends librarians, market researchers, consultants and journalists scurrying to mine its nuggets. But the Census Bureau publication goes well beyond gee-whiz numbers. Its 1,450 tables and charts offer a fascinating window on the world. With imagination -- and strong eyes for the fine print -- a reader...