Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squad used wooden sticks, which tended to break and splinter. "We spent an inordinate amount of time fiber glassing and restringing them, Gunnoe says, comparing the sticks to surfboards in terms of the care and personalization they received from their owners...
...where police turned up Brigades documents and weapons and ten more Red Brigades members, including Giovanni Senzani, a former criminologist who became leader of the Brigades' Rome column. Less than two weeks later, after a bank robbery in Siena, police arrested two members of an ultramilitant Red Brigades splinter group called Prima Linea, or Front Line. Those arrests in turn led to the discovery of a secret Rome hideout, which, remarkably, was used as a medical facility where terrorists wounded in police shootouts could come for emergency care. Soon afterward, police discovered another rich lode of Prima Linea documents...
...weeks ago, the NCAA called a special convention of its top football schools (those classified Division 1-A, including the Ivy League) to respond to a threat by the College Football Association (CFA), a splinter group composed of 61 leading Division 1-A members. Originally formed to tighten recruiting rules and academic standards within the NCAA, the CFA has been bucking for greater control of college football's destiny, most prominently in the area of television contracts...
...Ivies were evicted to give complete control of Division 1-A to the College Football Association, a splinter group including 61 of the nation's most powerful football schools. The top dogs in college football--concerned above all with controlling the game's multi-million-dollar television contract--will no longer be at all accountable to universities that place football in its correct perspective in campus life. With this concession to the professionalism already rampant in the sport, the NCAA will likely deemphasize the regulation and enforcement of recruiting violations and other transgressions...
...major proponents for the change in requirements were members of the College Football Association (CFA), a splinter group of the NCAA which has recently come into conflict with the parent organization over television contracts...