Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greenspan said the controversy could affect policy decisions on what form of tax break to offer businesses in the next few years...
Harvard's vaunted "run-and-gun" offense started to click soon after the half-time intermission. After Jimmy Ossyra scored to cut the UMass lead to 10-4, sophomore Bill Forbush raced downfield on a fast break and slipped the ball past Minuteman goalie Don Goldstein...
UMass got its last goal of the day just 32 seconds into the final stanza. On a two-on-one break, Fred Menna fired a beautiful pass to Dave Martin, all alone in front of the goal. Crimson netminder Jim Michelson came out to meet him vigorously enough to be called for a penalty, but Martin bounced the ball into the net anyway...
Though he knew it would take eight years to break even on the $1,600 investment, Nagy decided to take the plunge, and he signed a contract for the unit the day after President Carter's energy speech. Then he learned his home improvement would add another $90 to his property tax bill. "I canceled the contract but I am not dropping the issue," says an outraged Nagy. So far his pleas that solar units should be exempted from tax assessment valuations have been a waste of energy...
Confronted with the precise, tough questions on Watergate he had long evaded, would Nixon continue to stonewall? Or would he break under the pressure of so public a forum and the interrogator's grilling? Would he finally do now what he might have done some four years ago: admit with genuine humility that he had conspired with his aides in a vain effort to keep the scandal from destroying his presidency? Or would the politically inexperienced Frost prove a patsy and let Nixon filibuster with those same skillful diversions that always seemed to be answers but never were...