Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While a win today will guarantee Harvard a spot in the New England Championships, the ruggers say they are not satisfied with just qualifying. By winning the final two games of the Metro Region slate, the Crimson could conceivably go into the New England Championships with the top seed...
...Soichi Nakamura, 6-3, 6-0, and Dartmouth's Matt Semler and Jeff Hawkins, 6-2, 6-2, in the "A" doubles flight. But in the semifinals, they fell to West Virginia's Brad Kelly and Joe Foley, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, the tournament's top-seed...
...Second-seeded Stasiak breezed past Brown's Anna Sloane, 6-0, 6-0, in the semis before defeating Kelly Erven of Penn State, 7-6, 7-6, in the final. Erven had knocked off the top seed in tournament's opening round...
Park officials maintain that they can only contain the fires, not extinguish them. Meanwhile, defenders of the natural-burn policy trumpet its benefits: the flames clear thick stands of timber and prepare the soil for a new generation of flora. For example, many of the seed cones of the lodgepole pine, which covers 60% of the park, only open after being exposed to intense heat. Ecologists expect the fires to help restore the park's depleted stands of aspen trees and increase the wide array of insects, birds and mammals that have found Yellowstone's aging forests increasingly inhospitable...
...whose brainchildren are now billion-dollar companies, say the start-up craze has gone too far. Gordon Moore, chairman and co-founder of Intel, the chipmaker based in Santa Clara, Calif. (1987 revenues: $1.9 billion), says "vulture capitalists" have lured away some of his best technicians with offers of seed money to start their own firms...