Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year's team finished its campaign with a record of 17-7. Six of the players from that team were lost to graduation, making this year's squad much younger and less experienced. Hole setter Bill Wolff, goalie Don Bensen, sprinter Fred Scherrer, and speedsters Ben Elizondo and Peter Kaiser are gone...
...until late 1986, according to the Government, Boesky secretly bought and sold huge blocks of stock at Drexel's behest to push forward the firm's takeover deals and to reap millions of dollars in illicit profits. Five others were charged as participants in Drexel's schemes: Milken's younger brother Lowell, an attorney who works in the company's junk-bond department; Cary Maultasch and Pamela Monzert, traders for the firm; and the Miami-based industrialist Victor Posner and his son Steven...
...have to replace Diana Edge '88, one the best players to play the game. Also Jenny Holleran, number-two player last season, is taking the year off. Freshmen Brooke Bailey of Newark, Del., Carrie Cunningham of Gross Point, Mich., and Mary Greenhill (men's squash player Bobby Greenhill's younger sister) of Greenwich, Conn...
Walter has a tape he wants Doug to hear, so they head for the family room and pop a cassette into the machine. "Right here -- what's that? What's he saying?" asks the younger man as the tape begins. Doug angles his upper body toward the sound. A black preacher is crying out his sermon, his voice cracking with emotion through line after line, at times shifting to an eerie falsetto high above the drone of his congregation. It's part Motown, part a century or two of brutal noonday toil, and it will raise the hairs...
...immediate provocation for most of the popular outbursts was worsening economic deprivation. But on a deeper level, frustrated East Europeans were prodded into action by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's tantalizing vision of a reformed and freer model of Communism. The protests also underscored a generational shift to younger activists, whose hopes and experiences differ markedly from those of their elders...