Word: wildcat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans between the ages of 25 and 40 make more than $35,000 a year. More than six times as many--some 30 million Baby Boomers--make less than $15,000 a year. "I see a lot of people using their credit cards and getting into debt," says Mern Wildcat, 30, who has an eight-year-old son and works on an assembly line for the King Radio corporation in Olathe, Kans. "People want a home, two cars and all the new technologies, like VCRs, but it's hard to afford...
...University of Kentucky's fabled Adolph Rupp, a mean truth to many of the college-basketball fans "out in the state." Everywhere but Louisville, and sometimes in Louisville, the Cardinals are still referred to as "the blackbirds." While U.K. broke its color line way back in 1970, the Wildcat affirmative-action program pales in contrast to U.L.'s. It is conceivable that Duke had more rooters in the state of Kentucky than in both of the Carolinas...
...promotional gimmick, the bank is offering unusual six-month certificates of deposit: their interest rates are tied to how well the Wildcats and the Cardinals do in the N.C.A.A. tournament. For a minimum of $500, a customer can buy a Wildcat CD or a Cardinal CD that offers a base interest rate of 7.5%. If the chosen team makes the playoffs, the rate will bounce to 7.7%. That seems a sure bet with either team, since Kentucky was ranked No. 5 and Louisville No. 13 in the latest Associated Press poll. For , each game the team wins, another .1 percentage...
White made several stunning saves in the first period to keep her team in the game during the early going while forward Lisi Bailliere and Neilson combined for a couple of exchanges that nearly fooled Wildcat goalie Liz Tura...
...goalie Jennifer White held UNH to only two goals in the first period--no small feat considering the 17 shots the Cats reeled off--she could not stop forward Vivienne Ferry's breakaway blast at 12:08 of the second period that began the onslaught that led to the Wildcat rout...