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Word: tracked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competition, for example, Boston University won more events (six) than Northeastern (five), but the N.U. men ran away with their third consecutive Boston-area collegiate track championship by placing second and third more often. The Huskies ended up with 97.5 points, easily outdistancing the Terriers (second with 64 points) and the rest of the seven-team field...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Thinclads Come Close at GBCs | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Senior middle-distance runner Cliff Sheehan made a triumphant return to the intercollegiate track circuit. Competing in his first meet of the season, Sheehan (who was on leave doing research last term) won the mile and 1000-meter races, and was voted the meet's most outstanding performer...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Thinclads Come Close at GBCs | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Breaking from conventional track strategy, Haggerty refrained from "doubling" or "tripling" his athletes in the Championships, entering fewer than usual in more than one event...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Thinclads Come Close at GBCs | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...thing as paying too much attention to the bottom line. If you don't make money, you aren't going to make movies." Right now, though, the sort of movie that makes money--perhaps as much as $1 billion over five years--lasts half an hour, has a laugh track and is called Cheers or The Cosby Show. "Syndicating TV series, that's where the cash register is rung in this business," notes Anthony Hoffman, media analyst for Union Bank. "For the major studios involved in TV sitcoms, producing motion pictures is like playing polo on weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backing into the Future | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Time was in Texas when a man of letters meant a guy who was on the track and football varsities. But two years ago H. Ross Perot gave Texas education a kick in the pants by leading the drive for the controversial no-pass, no-play rule for student athletes. Now he has given Texas letters an incalculable shot in the arm by presenting the University of Texas at Austin with a rare early English literary collection of 1,105 volumes and 250 manuscript groups. Included are first editions of Donne, Milton and Shakespeare, as well as the first book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 3, 1986 | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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