Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goals...Harvard improved its three-year mark to 33-10-1 and its five-year mark to 64-20-1...In the latest national rankings, released yesterday, Harvard was ranked 10th. That's two spots below where are Cantabs were ranked last week. The big winners this week were Virginia, which jumped into the number four spot, and the University of the New Hampshire, which by virtue of a 10-9 triple overtime triumph over the University of Massachusetts, vaulted into the number five position. Temple remained the top ranked team...
...witty, self-effacing and very British way, Braithwaite also has a lot to say about contemporary fiction in general. His opinions are marked by their forthrightness, as in his assertion that he's "saving Virginia Woolf for when I'm dead," or his hilarious skewering of Marquezian pyrotechnics; "A quota system is to be introduced on fiction set in South America. The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony....Ah, the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing; ah the fredonna tree whose root grow at the tips of its branches...
...bargain was getting their daughter Susan to transfer her studies from Wellesley to Aix-en-Provence, a saving of about one-third. "I've lived here so much more comfortably than at Wellesley," agrees Susan. "There I pinch every penny. Here I can eat out." Says another Wellesley student, Virginia Baskett, newly returned from Greece: "Half our class is missing, studying abroad...
Viet Nam veterans, maturing into their 30s and 40s, have begun to achieve some power in American society. They are seen more as leaders, less as victims. Charles Robb, who commanded a Marine rifle company in 1968-69, is the Governor of Virginia. Bob Kerrey, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner who lost part of a leg in action as a member of the Seals, a Navy special forces unit, is the Governor of Nebraska. John Kerry, a Navy officer and eloquent spokesman against the war during congressional hearings in 1971, is a Senator from Massachusetts. Veteran and Writer John...
...Virginia-based company (1984 sales: $632 million) said the loss was caused by the creation of a $615 million fund, the largest in a pharmaceutical liability case, that the company set up to cover pending and future claims filed by women who bought Dalkon Shields between 1971 and 1974. The firm stopped marketing the product in the latter year, following the reported death of a user. Since then, more than 12,000 people have filed suits claiming that the Dalkon Shield causes pelvic infections, sterility and infected miscarriages. The device, which was bought by some 2.9 million women...