Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...there were "NIT" banners at Yale's Payne Whitney Gym urging that tournament's selection committee to consider the Elis--Ivy League runner-up to Princeton--for its postseason tournament. Yale is unlikely to garner the bid, despite its 19-7 record, because of its easy schedule. Case Western Reserve, Swarthmore and Columbia aren't exactly the type of competition any national tournament wants to see its teams playing...
Students organizing the alternative weekend, designed to inform parents of Harvard's record on the hiring of women and minority faculty, faced opposition from the administration when they scheduled their lecture to conflict with three official parents weekend events...
...their real crime was to pose a threat to Castro and his brother Raul, the Defense Minister and heir designate. Meanwhile, the government jailed at least ten human-rights activists last year. The U.S. State Department's annual human-rights report, which was issued last week, lambasted Cuba's record, which it said had "worsened significantly...
...Garber Facility is named for a diminutive 90-year-old man who still goes to work every day as historian emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution and has done more than any other person to preserve the record of the nation's great venture into flight. Paul E. Garber was born just as the Wright brothers began to inquire about flying machines. When Garber was five, his uncle gave him a kite, and his fascination with the sky was fixed for a long lifetime...
...tome, published last week at $205 a copy, for the first time includes the "illegitimate issue" of the titled and blue-blooded. According to Kidd, the change was requested by many people previously excluded. Said he: "Since Debrett's has everything to do with being a book of record, the inclusion ensures that the book is comprehensive...