Word: stingier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course--is the defense, arguably the finest in the East. The defense is bolstered by returning starters Randy Taylor, Jerry Pawloski and Mark Benning, all of whom quietly established themselves last season as three of the league's steadiest performers. The Crimson blue line corps will be even stingier with the addition of 6-ft., 3-in., freshman Chris Biotti, a Belmont Hill 'standout who was the 17th player chosen in the NHL Draft...
...profits vanish and companies struggle, the venture-capital firms that helped fuel Silicon Valley's early growth have become stingier. Investment bankers who steer young companies toward the stock market are also cutting back. San Francisco's Hambrecht & Quist recently announced layoffs for 5% of its work force. After arranging initial public offerings for 66 companies, worth $2.2 billion in 1983, Hambrecht & Quist has managed only eight sales worth $96 million so far this year...
What doomed Harvard was as balanced an ofensive attack as the Crimson has faced all year. And that includes Duke. Five Cornell cagers hit the scoring books in double figures, and when they returned up the court, they provided a stingier defense than those nation-leading defenders in New Jersey...
Many of the 283 stations in the PBS system look upon the plan as a salvation. Inflation has raised production costs, government at all levels is stingier than it was, and corporate underwriters like the big oil companies say they are giving as much as they can. "Pay public television is unquestionably going to happen," says Tony Tiano, general manager of San Francisco's KQED. "And it's going to happen sooner rather than later." Says Ward Chamberlin, president of Washington's WETA: "The Reagan cuts are a sign that we had damned well better get ready...
Harvard has not lost the GBCs since they began in 1976, and this year's assemblage was stingier than ever, grabbing the first three places and a whole slew of additional top 15 finishes...