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...Back-to-back base bits by Farrell and vinnie Martelli and a walk to Chris Schindler loaded the bases with two outs in the fifth. But DiCesare was caughtlooking for the third...
...Johnny Vander Meer pitched back-to-back no-hitters for the Reds in 1938. Allie Reynolds (1951). Virgil Trucks (1952), Jim Maloney (1965), and Nolan Ryan (1973) are the others...
...less and less frequently, tailing off from a once-a-month schedule to 1982's three-times-in-a-year regimen. The tempo will almost certainly not pick up much in 1983. It's not that the rare meetings since the Core debate haven't been magnificent; at back-to-back gatherings in early 1981, for example. Faculty members clashed vigorously over an affirmative action plan for Faculty hiring, and then over the proposed Race Relations Foundation. Discussion ranged from the history of discrimination in the United States to the meaning of meritocracy and the importance of diversity...
...higher-yielding investments, such as commercial paper and certificates of deposit. Brown and Bent's solution: a mutual fund that would allow lots of people to pool their money and get into the higher-yielding market. They worked out details while facing each other across their back-to-back desks...
...timber industry has already laid off 3,223 of its 21,000 workers, and the state expects to lose a total of 10,000 construction jobs in 1983. Even the much touted high-tech industries are feeling the pinch. The electronic-components field had back-to-back growth rates of 18% in 1978 and '79, but will probably close out this year with a 1.4% drop in sales. And the usually sparkling California wine industry reports sour grapes: only one-tenth of 1 % growth in shipments over last year...