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...grapplers, who have been frustrated all season long--losing several nip-and-tuck Ivy League contests--finished off the dual meet season with an 11-9 record that includes a 2-4 league showing...
...summer of 1981, he seemed a perfect choice for a scholarly Ivy League bastion steeped in lusty, old-boy fellowship. Indeed, his persona glowed the deepest Dartmouth green: Phi Beta Kappa in the class of '54, wide receiver on the football team, M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Three of McLaughlin's four children had graduated from Dartmouth or were going there. Finally, as chief executive officer of the Toro Co., makers of lawn and gardening equipment, McLaughlin was an exemplar of the business success that can be earned by a Dartmouth man with the right...
...Dartmouth College students can tuck, slalom, and frolic on man-made snow a mere dozen miles from their dorms...
...policymakers. His "life-cycle" savings theory, developed in the 1950s with Richard Brumberg, is accepted by nearly all experts as a key to understanding thrift. Among other uses, the work offers a yardstick for gauging the impact of different pension systems. The theory suggests, for example, that people will tuck away less when they are guaranteed retirement income. That prediction has been borne out by the experience of Sweden, where savings rates plummeted from 7% to virtually zero after the government embarked in the 1960s on a sweeping pension program...
...here they come. Clutching their Vuitton luggage and checking their Cartier Panthere wristwatches, wealthy foreigners are lining up with their less fortunate countrymen at U.S. Immigration desks. The new arrivals are not jet-setters here for a month-long shopping spree or speculators merely stopping off to tuck away foreign currency in U.S. investments. They are ambitious entrepreneurs and professionals ready to catch the go-go spirit, to buy homes and consider citizenship in the nation that, for the present at least, offers them attractive business opportunities and an amenable society. "Ten years ago, everything was based on England," says...