Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winner of Friday's Harvard-Penn confrontation--slated for 7:30 p.m.--will become the favorite to wrest the Ivy crown...
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole set off howls of protest last week when she announced that the winner of a lengthy bidding battle to buy 85% of Conrail is Norfolk Southern railroad of Norfolk, Va. (The remaining 15% is owned by Conrail employees.) The $1.2 billion purchase would unite two of the three dominant eastern railroads and forge the largest U.S. freight line, with 34,000 miles of track. The third big railroad, CSX, which runs the Chessie and Seaboard lines, complained that the merger would create a giant that would flatten rivals like pennies on a rail. Some companies...
With 3:35 remaining in the 10-minute overtime, Pettit set up Jim Higgs for the game-winner...
...Cornell snagged the early lead, but the Crimson tied it at 2-2 1:20 into the third period and crazed Cantab fans celebrated by littering the ice with paper. The game remained tied for almost three quarters of a period, until Cornell's Kevin Pettit notched the game-winner with only 3:53 left. Brian Cornell's empty-net goal with just one second left padded the score...
...Paradise, Jim Jarmusch's independent film that won the 1984 "Newcomer's" award at Cannes in May. The story of its evolution is near-legendary by virtue of a graceful coincidence: over three years ago, Wim Wenders director of Paris, Texas, the 1984 Cannes Palm D'Or grand prize winner, had given Jarmusch the leftover film stock which was to become the 90-minute Stranger than Paradise. Since then, Jarmusch has been punch-drunk on interviews, coaxed into heralding his knew style of American filmmaking" every hour on the hour...