Word: skiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slip Slidin' Away: The Harvard ski team begins its preparation for the upcoming season December 15 when it starts a week of intense training at Killington, Vt. There are 24 members on the ski team, six each on the men's and women's Nordic and men's and women's downhill squads...
...first nobody noticed how much had disappeared because heists in high places occur without ski masks or guns. But now the House Banking Committee, the thousands of duped bondholders and the public have caught on: to the empty vault at California's Lincoln Savings and Loan, to the perfidy of its owner Charles Keating and to the complicity of the Government. Says Banking Committee member Jim Leach of Iowa: "Keating is at fault because he is a bank robber, but we in Washington made it, in part, a legal bank robbery...
...that saying goes, with the "thrill of victory" necessarily comes the "agony of defeat." The 4-3 overtime defeat marked Minnesota's fourth consecutive exit from the NCAA Final Four without a title victory. Once again, Minnesota fans were left with the indelible impression of a ski jumper viciously tumbling down a 100-meter ramp...
...group, four of whom were wearing ski masks, burst into the station at about 2:15 p.m. and threatened to "blow [a student's] head off," according to a Cambridge police report...
...other one, or influence each other's life decisions right now," Bomba, a mass communications major (what else?), explains to us before a framed photo of her soon-to-be-former mate. Others, they explain coolly, eyes ever on the prize, have opted for such admittedly pleasant diversions as ski bumming and white water rafting, having apparently decided, along with Shakespeare, that their "mistress" eyes are nothing like...