Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard offense, short on hard-shooting forwards, has lately turned to victimizing opposing goalies with textbook-style, centering pass to deflection goals. Liz Ward opened the scoring against Yale on Saturday on such a play, setting up in front of the net and tipping in a centering pass from linemate Vicki Palmer, 5:24 into the first period...
...product or service decides to form his own company. He invests his family's savings in the new venture. He is soon working 18-hour days but does not mind because the company is his own. Sales start sluggishly, and he makes enough mistakes to fill a textbook. Eventually it all pays off. Profits boom; he makes it big. He becomes wealthy beyond his wildest hopes...
Over at CBS News, Van Sauter, a large and relaxed ex-newspaperman and station manager, thinks news can gain from the energy of sports coverage. He believes that sports bring the viewer (in a phrase he found in a textbook somewhere) "the sweet resolution of anxiety." Viewers make an emotional investment in a player or team that intensifies their watching interest, and, by the end of the game, their hopes have been satisfied or their worries confirmed. Sauter thinks viewers also invest emotionally in people they see in the news. Trouble is, there is no final score anxieties...
Less dramatic but just as noteworthy was sophomore Grace de Fries' effort in the 800 Meter Run. In what could be called a "textbook" race, de Fries jackrabbited to an early lead, was joined by freshman teammate Amy Simeon with one lap to go, and then shot out again to finish the clear winner with a new meet record of 2:15.4. Simeon finished third...
...generation of college economics students learned that maxim from the classic textbook by Paul Samuelson. Labor unions had become so strong, the reasoning went, that they had virtually repealed the law of supply and demand as it applies to jobs and wages. Even in difficult economic times, unions would prefer to sacrifice jobs rather than relinquish hard-won gains hi salaries or benefits. During the 1973-75 recession, the worst since the Great Depression, many workers went on strike or suffered layoffs so that they would not have to give up what they won in past wage negotiations...