Word: captain
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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After 3½ years in the Army, where he rose to the rank of captain, Baldrige went to work as a shop foreman in an ironworks, rising through the ranks to become president. He joined Scovill in 1962, and is credited with changing the company from a stodgy brass manufacturer with sales of $164 million to a conglomerate that now has sales of about $1 billion in goods ranging from appliances and building products to locks and zippers...
...gabble, a big fraction of it as disposable as a weather-caster's strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured by the cloud cover. Go to the dentist, and the procedure is all but ordained: thumbs fill the mouth, the drill starts to whine, and a voice begins to express all those unpalatable political opinions...
...game psychologically," says co-captain Tom Mannix. "There's a big difference between going into vacation with a 4-3 record and starting it at 3-4. There's a big psychological difference between a three-game losing streak and a four-game...
When Sue Newell sat down in the penalty box for tripping at 10:05, the Tigers seemed destined for their fourth consecutive rout. But the foursome of Fischer, Lightfoot, rising Yardling star Megan Berthold, and co-captain Lauren Norton, whose poise and drive anchored a superlative effort by the defensive corps, not only snuffed out the Princeton power play, but tallied a shorthanded goal to knot the game...
...defense, which has also skated well in the last two outings, will have its hands full with Princeton. On the blue line, co-captain Lauren Norton teams with fellow senior Alice Hill, while Julie Starr pairs with Deb Taft on the second defense. Freshman Cheryl Tate, fully recovered from her leg injury, has been hot in the nets...