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Harvard managed some scoring opportunities in a subsequent power play, but N.U. backstop Kelly Dyer (who backed up the NHL's Tom Barrasso at Acton-Boxboro High) stonewalled the Crimson. White matched Dyer's efforts, and the Crimson entered the final period trailing by only one goal...
...also noticed some very large dents in the chain-link backstop surrounding the throwing circle. One little error in concentration makes the thrower misjudge his self-made centrifuge and commit an illegal throw...
...going on in Washington last week, but it may not be enough to prop up a large part of the $1.1 trillion U.S. thrift industry. By a 402-to-6 vote, the House of Representatives approved a $5 billion cash infusion for the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, backstop for the country's 3,200 federally insured savings and loan associations. That would almost, but not quite, bring the FSLIC back to being merely broke; last year the fund was $6 billion in the red by normal accounting methods. Normal accounting, however, has long since gone by the boards...
...hard to believe him when he says that winning the game occupied him more than pitching the no-hitter, consider the eight straight decisions Nieves lost at the end of last year. "I felt so pumped up, I was trying to throw the ball through the catcher and the backstop." The left-handed sophomore from Santurce, Puerto Rico, is the youngest major leaguer in 15 years to pitch a no-hitter, the second Latin after Juan Marichal and the first Brewer in history...
...Another backstop against an OPEC-induced shortage is the strategic petroleum reserve started in 1975 by President Ford. By the end of May, the U.S. will have filled a series of hollow salt domes in Louisiana with about 500 million bbl., enough to meet U.S. oil-import needs for 100 days. The Reagan Administration has proposed stopping short of the final goal, 120 days' worth, as a way of cutting the federal deficit. But at these oil prices, the Administration is now thinking of continuing to stock up before the discount binge ends...