Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peretz out point Hagler and Cock burn, respectively, before a sellout in Madison Square Garden. "Everyone has a God-given talent." Leonard tells the press afterwards. "Mine happens to be mauling the hell out of other human beings' faces." Peretz, behind on two judges' scorecards, is named the winner when Cock burn is docked points for hitting below the belt...
With an uphill reelection fight looming against Ali, Reagan challenges the Senator to a winner-take-all boxing match in 1984, declaring. "I can beat him at his own game." Saying that he will outlast Ali, the President predicts a 15-round decision in his favor. "He talks and brags with no remorse/But only I can stay the course." Reagan explains...
...Cockran spoiled all Crimson hopes when she beat the Harvard defense for the game-winner just a minute-and-a-half later...
...Leverett House junior was named yesterday as the 1982 winner of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) concerto competition for her piano performance...
...another. So far, its sales have reached $1 million. Jeff Gold of Saratoga, Calif, was only 15 when he created a program in his bedroom that solved the puzzle of Rubik's Cube. A thousand copies were sold before Gold, now 16, came up with a second winner: a program to prevent the theft of other programs. Gold is making $2,000 a week from the proceeds of both creations, and he recently bought himself a new $18,000 Datsun Turbo 280-ZX sports car. Jeff Garbers, 23, of Atlanta, who has a master's degree in computer...