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Another factor in the success formula has to be this year's freshmen. Coach Bill McCurdy managed to amass a stellar contingent of Yardlings, who filled many traditionally weak areas and set a distinctively ebullient, young tone for the squad...
This decade's census is one of the biggest, costliest and most ambitious statistical exercises in history. Using 120 million forms, 5,000 tons of paper and 85 tons of ink, the survey will amass and tabulate more than 3 billion answers and record them on 5,000 miles of microfilm. To process this avalanche of data, the Census Bureau has had to design (and patent) special scanning equipment that will be plugged into a giant UNIVAC 1100 computer around the clock for months. Meanwhile, an army of 250,000 census takers, or "enumerators," and 15,000 office workers...
...wanton, punitive damages are added to however much money it takes to compensate the victims' families. To prove to a jury, as Kreindler puts it, that American and McDonnell Douglas "knew it was only a matter of time before the airplane fell apart," Kreindler will have to amass mountains of persuasive evidence...
...mama of the antiabortion movement is the National Right to Life Committee, which sponsored last week's rally in Cincinnati. Organized six years ago, the N.R.L.C. claims more than 11 million members of 1,800 chapters across the country. The committee hopes to amass millions of dollars for next year's elections. It has been spurred into more forceful involvement in politics by competition from several activist groups that are at the front of the fight for a ban on abortions. Among them...
...year that saw Joe Bernal's talented troops casually cast aside dual meet competitions to amass a perfect record, embarrassing Yale and edging Princeton, 59-54, the swimmers had the answer for virtually every challenge...