Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cadets won the women's division with 105 points, 12 ahead of second-place (and Ivy winner) Penn. Princeton's men escaped with both the Heps and the Ivy titles--but barely, nosing out Cornell by a fraction...
...Commodore headquarters, though, hopes still run high. Chief Executive Marshall Smith, 56, is convinced that his new, technologically impressive Amiga computer will become a winner and that the banks will give the company enough time to make a turnaround. Wall Street speculates that Commodore may be working on a deal to raise cash through a merger or joint venture with another firm...
Privately, many lower- and middle-level U.S. diplomats were outraged by what they considered gross abuses of the democratic process by Marcos supporters. But on Monday, Deputy State Department Spokesman Charles Redman tried to put a conciliatory gloss on the tumultuous balloting process. Whoever was eventually declared the winner, he said, the U.S. hoped that "the two sides can get together to avoid violence." President Reagan struck almost the same note that day in a White House meeting with a group of regional U.S. newspaper editors. While noting that he was "concerned" about reports of election fraud, Reagan declared that...
Every team has gained from the league's fresh stability, but the clearest winner is a surprise. Twenty-seven home dates into this season, the six-year- old, third-place Dallas Mavericks are averaging 16,694 customers, shading the champion Los Angeles Lakers (16,571) as the biggest draw in the N.B.A. The Mavs are the hobby of a Stetsoned millionaire named Donald Carter, 52, whose mother made their money in living-room gewgaws, and whose long-standing affection for the sport is suggested by a wallet photo he carries of his wife wearing No. 37 on her old school...
...Pick-6 lottery last October, it did not stop her from plunking down another buck. In fact, she raised her weekly total bet from 60 to 100 tickets. And, wonder of numbers, she hit again last week, this time for nearly $1.5 million, becoming the first two-time winner of a million-dollar-plus state lottery. Stunned officials had to consult a statistics professor before determining that Adams had just beaten odds of 17.3 trillion to 1. Both of her winning tickets were purchased at the 7-Eleven store in Point Pleasant that her fiance owns and she has managed...