Word: toughing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year was a big uphill climb," Harvard Co-Captain Cindi Ersek said. "We had a tough first week of the season, and we climbed up. We came back from behind in a lot of games. We worked really hard...
...They're just tough on attack," Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder said. "You can't let their shooters have the ball...
...crossed paths on the campaign trail, for instance, with | legitimate candidates like Bob Dole and Pat Robertson. But Altman and Trudeau have gone beyond such gimmicks and turned their parallel world into a sly fun- house mirror. The show skewers a host of familiar political types, from the tough-as-nails campaign manager (Pamela Reed), who fends off late-night calls from Joe Kennedy Jr., to the overzealous staff cameraman, who dogs Tanner's every step with his whirring minicam. The candidate, meanwhile, is an earnest but wimpy liberal who quotes Adlai Stevenson at environmental rallies and wilts slowly under...
When Stanford tapped him as president in 1980, he continued to take on tough issues, pushing the hiring of women and minority professors. He joined other university presidents in exploring possible ethical conflicts in commercially sponsored research and refusing government research contracts with restrictive clauses about publication. He has navigated such shoals by combining a firm hand with a collegial deference to his faculty that has spared him much of the president-bashing common to academe...
...Because of the problems we had in Annapolis, we've worked a lot on our ability to handle rough weather and I think we've made a lot of progress," Coach Harry Parker said. "On Sunday, I expect Princeton to be tough and Brown, with a changed lineup since we beat them earlier, has a history of doing well late in the season, especially at the Sprints...