Word: starter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prep school the youngster was the model over-achieving crown prince. He excelled both in the classroom and on the playing field. While trying to secure a starter's place on the football team, he played one quarter with a fractured arm. Eventually he became the team's captain and won letters in three other sports. But although he grew up affluent, Darman also felt the influence of his mother Eleanor, a liberal involved in medical social service. Later Darman mused that he "bumbled" into government work as a means of bridging his father's and mother's impulses...
...other purchases, first-time buyers have few assets and too little salary to catch up. In a particularly gloomy report, the National Association of Realtors found last fall that the average potential first-time buyer had only 77% of the income needed to qualify for the mortgage on a starter home. Current homeowners, by contrast, had 112% of the income required for a mortgage on a median-priced home. Said Ira Gribin, president of the Realtors association: "The first-time home buyer is virtually priced out of the market in many parts...
...past, as in Yale's only senior starter, Mike Ryan, who scored 12 points from the outside and dwarfed Gielen the entire game, holding him to just three second-half points...
...burden of balancing academics and athletics has occasionally taken its toll on athletes at Harvard. Richard Knight '90 was in line to become a starter on this year's soccer squad, but decided to sit out the season in order to concentrate on academics...
Linebacker Rick McIntire was a starter by the end of the year and he should be solid next year with this season's experience under his belt...