The enormous increase in the number of women in high school and college athletics – from 300,000 in 1972 to more than three million today – has led to increased professionalization and interest in women’s sports, and the objects in the exhibit demonstrate this depth and depth. Growth: Billie Jean King’s tennis racket, 1984 Olympic …
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Robinhood, the free stock trading app 21 million active users and counting, about to go college coffee shop tour to gain new customers. Now where have we heard this before? Ah, yes, the credit card industry. The campus antics of the card companies up to twenty years ago were so gruesome that 2009 federal law …
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Robinhood, the free stock trading app 21 million active users and counting, about to go college coffee shop tour to gain new customers. Now where have we heard this before? Ah, yes, the credit card industry. The campus antics of the card companies up to twenty years ago were so gruesome that 2009 federal law …
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ENDICOTT, NY – The sidewalks along Washington Avenue in Endicott, NY are empty enough for bikes to travel their length with a smooth ride. But 40 years ago, when an IBM factory was overrun with thousands of employees, cyclists may have taken a different route. “You couldn’t see down the street at lunch time because …