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Rushing Leaders PlayerG Aff Yds Avg Lg TD Scott McCabe 3 38 120 22 12 1 Tim McGugan 3 23 107 47 32 1 Don Allard 3 37 83 22 16 3 Jim Garvey 3 8 29 36 11 0 Mike Ernst 3 4 23 58 13 0 Mark Vignali 2 5 19 38 11 0 Ron Cuccia 1 5 17 14 11 0 Mike Granger 3 11 15 14 6 0 Steve Ernst 2 1 7 20 7 0 Greg Dunn 1 1 4 40 4 0 Brian Cooke 1 0 0 00 0 0 John Riordan...
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...graduate's birthday passed without a card signed, "Aff., F.D.A." Each Sunday he invited some students to his house for scrambled eggs, sausage and bacon. Before every Christmas vacation, he sat in front of a blazing fire in his book-lined study reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to the new boys at his feet. Twice a week he held forth on the Bible and Greek philosophy at the headmaster's class, which was attended by juniors and seniors. He also preached at chapel, which is required five nights a week, as well as on Sunday...
...letter n, which is often borrowed from mathematical formulas by social scientists, is equally hallucinogenic. It stands for the word need. Thus Harvard Psychologist David McClelland, for one, writes n Ach when he wants only to convey a person's need to achieve great things, or n Aff to express the urge to affiliate with or belong to a group. Some of his colleagues, Andreski writes, must in turn be moved by n Bam, the need to bamboozle...
...combined levy is a brutal 63%. Loopholes are almost nonexistent, and deductions are rare. Corporate income taxes, which average 53%, are less severe because, unlike individuals, companies can deduct from their national tax the amount they pay in local taxes. Even so, Sweden's leading business magazine, Veckans Affärer, has warned that if taxes continue to rise at the present rate, the government by 1980 will be taking 55% of the G.N.P. and will dangerously squeeze industrial expansion. This could crimp economic growth and diminish tax revenues, along with many of the public services that they provide...