Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIGHT END (1)--Senior Captain Steve Abbott (6-ft., 3-in., 225 lbs.) should get the starting and, with backup help from senior Bill McGagh and junior Bob Hoog. Whoever plays, don't expect Kellen Winslow. Harvard wants blocking front its tight end: peas receptions are icing on the cake. Last year's squad got nine receptions out of the right and position...
...great shot at the pros. The left side of the ball is a different story. Junior George Kostakos leads the race for the starting slot. Three inches shorter and 50 pounds lighter than Caron, Kostakos played in just three games last year. Junior Joe Ryan is a formidable backup tackle...
...innings later, Gonyar stoned, and the Crimson was awestruck. The backup left fielder hadn't even been on the Black Bear varsity much of the year, but his leadoff drive over the fence in the 12th was undoubtedly the single biggest swing in Maine's year. And it destroyed Harvard...
...program of strategic defense should be launched unless a comprehensive arms-control program that places sharp limits on offensive weapons is established first. That way, strategic defense might conceivably serve as a useful backup to traditional deterrence, an extra insurance against war breaking out by accident (a space-based American death ray might knock out an errant Soviet missile, for instance, without necessarily touching off a full-scale Soviet attack) or against war being started by a reckless newcomer to the nuclear-weapons club...
...manned maneuvering unit (MMU), the jet-powered Buck Rogers contraption that enabled astronauts to make the historic, untethered space walk on Challenger's February flight. Mission Specialist James van Hoften, 39, a onetime hot-tub salesman with a Ph.D. in hydraulic engineering, will act as an emergency backup...