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...former coach agree that he probably would have stuck with the game if his career had seemed any more promising. "As it turned out," says Wampfler, "our starting center got hurt, and he would have been playing a lot." Moore says that even if he'd had brighter prospects on the field, saying no to Harvard would have been difficult...
McPherson said new technology, an understanding of the market economy and a world-wide interest in democratic institutions will help pave the way to "a brighter world, a safer world...
Same Time, Last Year: The Crimson was licking its wounds from a 17-6 pounding at the hands of Yale, and anticipating a long off-season. This year the picture is a little brighter, with a resounding win in The Game making up, in part, for a disappointing season...
...rendering, a very likable one. The most interesting performances come from Michael Countryman as a diffident rich boy who spends years under the hero's sway and Peter Friedman as an austere Scot who spends years resisting it. Countryman portrays the sort of unflashy youth who hangs around his brighter classmates but inevitably is relegated to the business chores -- for which he demonstrates an acumen far better suited to adult life than their verbal fireworks. The slow ripening of his self- confidence and, therefore, his sexuality provides the play's time line, establishing the passage of nearly two decades. Friedman...
Ironically, the woes that confront so many thrift institutions come at a time when the outlook for the industry as a whole is much brighter than it has been in many years. Overall profits are expected to hit a record $6.5 billion this year, a strong rebound from the $4.6 billion loss suffered in 1981. The sharp drop in interest rates since 1981 has been responsible for much of the improvement. The fall in rates has reduced the interest that S and Ls pay to depositors faster than it has lowered the interest that the institutions earn on mortgages...