Word: almost
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...August, almost the entire Ivy League went on a safari known as the Great Quarterback Hunt. As Harvard coach Joe Restic stalked the practice fields in search of a signal-caller, he didn't ask for the record-breaking passing arm of a Larry Brown or the wily elusiveness of pass-run threat Jim Kubacki...
...have balanced the budget again. From 1968 to 1977 the Faculty found its budget over-extended across new programs and expanded services begun in the prosperous '60s, and it ran a deficit in most of those years. The 1976-77 budget was the first to show a surplus in almost a decade...
...hospitals. A study by Clemons' office indicates that, if the EPA regulations are implemented as proposed, a Harvard-affiliated hospital which currently spends about $50,000 annually for disposal of hazardous wastes would have to spend $3 million a year. The new regulations, warns Shapiro, "are going to almost bankrupt anybody in a research...
...Husky victory appeared almost a foregone conclusion in the early going as the action rarely strayed from the perimeter of the Crimson goal. And even when it did, Coach George Ford had moved so many strikers back on defense that a concerted charge seemed impossible...
...Cliff Pedrow, a former star Tiger fullback for my alma mater, White Plains High School. But Harvard had kept Pedrow to virtually nothing last year, and he was coming off a 100-yd.-plus multiple-touchdown day against Maine. Still, UMass was certain to be competent--in fact, they almost certainly would be a tough opponent...