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...team has begun to absorb this attitude. "Edie gets us really excited. She has lots of encouragement and enthusiasm for the team, and she shows it," returning varsity back sweeper Anne Macmillan said. "She does a lot of cheering from the sidelines...
Sponsors of the legislation, though, are convinced large price increases are unnecessary. "Poppycock," snorts McLean, adding that a report due to be released soon by Alan Nairn, a Ralph Nader employee, will show ETS is able to absorb the cost increases and a lot more. "We just don't believe they have any justification," Arty Malkin, a NYPIRG lobbyist, says. The Nairn report, five years in the writing, may also shed light on some other areas of the ETS operation, including some of the more basic questions about the adequacy of the exams...
Overall, Harvard's season resembles one grand "IF." If the team avoids injury, if St. John can deliver some passing, if the lines fill out the holes, if the players absorb the Multiflex--then there may be some success...
...Restic doesn't know how much his young team can absorb in the short preseason camp since most players have had little or no prior exposure to the flex. He's unsure how many different sets the team will be able to use. "We've got to do more things because we're small," he said. Then Restic added, "But can we do more things...
...pledge from the participating nations that they would take in 250,000 refugees this year. The promises of help, in fact, got under way before the conference. Canada announced earlier in the week that it would accept 50,000 refugees by the end of 1980, Britain that it would absorb 10,000 from overcrowded Hong Kong. The U.S. had already increased its quota from 7,000 to 14,000 a month...