Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston University Law Professor William Schwartz, the holiday season got off to a fast start last week. Massachusetts authorities announced an agreement that gives him a $799,000 fee for negotiating a settlement in a dispute involving a fleet of trolley cars claimed to be defective. Because the cars kept jumping the track, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (M.B.T.A.) wanted them modified by the manufacturer, Boeing Vertol Co. In September, after a year of futile negotiations, Schwartz, a products-liability expert, was hired. Before the M.B.T.A. and Schwartz could agree what his remuneration would be, he extracted from Boeing Vertol...
Surprisingly, Center Elaine Holpuch is one of the major problems. The 6-ft. 1-in. sophomore led the team in offense last season, scoring an average of 11.9 points per game, but she has rarely broken loose this year...
Karen Smith, another sophomore, who began the season as Holpuch's replacement, has been the beneficiary of the star's troubles. Playing for more than 20 minutes in the team's last five games, Smith has shown she can score from the inside against the zone, but like Holpuch, has struggled against man-to-man defenses...
...final factor missing from the Harvard effort for most of this season has been leadership. Senior Co-captain Caryn Curry has the experience, credentials and brains to be the director of the production, but she refuses to keep her performers in line. The youngsters needed Curry during their opening tour--needed her to drive and shoot more from the outside when no one else seemed capable of holding the ball, let alone put it through the hoop...
Curry contends she "just plays her game," and as her statistics testify, it's a damn good game. But she must do even more this season...