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That plan was directed mostly at Syracuse's two tallest players, 5'11" forward Kim Dick and 6-ft. center Maryann Mogish. But Harvard's 6-ft. center Elaine Holpuch and sophomore Nancy Boutilier were both sidelined with ankle injuries, leaving the squad bereft of Holpuch's rebounding talents and Boutilier's consistent dumps from the outside...
...predictably be shot through with mythology. Once again, the states rights catch phrase is being heard. But the Constitution assigns rights only to individuals, none to the states, which are granted only residual powers by the Tenth Amendment. It is argued that the Federal Government has left the states bereft of revenues. In fact, state taxing powers are limited only by their own constitutions, and presumably with popular approval...
...m.p.g. Mini Metro model being introduced this summer. The droop nose helps save gas by reducing aerodynamic drag, but the real secret behind the experimental ECV lies underneath-a novel three-cylinder engine. The ECV body, about the size of a Ford Pinto, is bantam weight. Bereft of bumpers and stripped of all interior furnishings except for the drivers seat, the test car tips the scales at 1,320 lbs. The body is constructed largely of lightweight aluminum and plastic. The windows are made of Perspex, a plastic that is lighter than glass...
Getting the country back into shape will not be easy. Machel, 46, a onetime medical orderly, came to power as the leader of the liberation movement that led Mozambique to independence from Portugal in 1975. Despite his pleas for whites to stay, most of them fled, leaving the country bereft of technical, administrative and professional workers...
...furniture of the American myths is being dismantled and stored. Psychologically, if not yet financially, a stale air of foreclosure has wafted around. It is not that the U.S. is broke or now bereft of such resources as its grain, its amazing capacity to nourish life. But Americans have always needed to know the point of it all; that has been part of their peculiar national "innocence" and residual Puritan sense of themselves as the new elect of God. Without such grace or rationale, without the comfort of their demonstrable virtue and uniqueness, Americans feel themselves sliding toward triviality...