Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What makes Pellegrini so extraordinary, however, is not that the Hingham native is the first backup for one of the best offensive lines in football. The most interesting part of his story is that he has not played a down of football since his junior year at Harvard...
Cuccia then departed in favor of backup QB Don Allard, who led the Crimson offense until John Riordan spelled him late in the fourth quarter...
Defensively, the stickwomen look very solid Junior Juliet Lamont is coming off a good season, and should she have any difficulties, backup Katie Williams is very solid. With the loss of Sara LeBlond to graduation, either Co-Captain Maureen Finn or senior Beth Mullen will have to assume leadership roles as the rest of the defense is made up of second-year players...
...some way to keep away from the action. So let's say the laws were real strict and every eligible man was drafted Right now in the army for every soldier on the front line there are approximately six non-combat people who back him up. Most of the backup jobs require a higher level of skill than the infantry man on the front line. Placement in one job or another, say computers or medical technician, is determined by a test. Many ambitious but disadvantaged young men who might otherwise be placed in a computer training program in the Army...
...contact with the cooling system. The water vaporized and escaped--still radioactive into the atmosphere. As the plant's technicians belatedly tried to lower the water pressure to reduce the leak, a valve stuck, pressure dropped too rapidly and the water in the reactor began to boil. If a backup valve hadn't opened, a "bubble" of steam would have formed within the reactor, possibly uncovering the core--exactly what happened at Three Mile Island in March of 1979. But because the Ginna valve did open, the accident goes down in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as only a "serious...