Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little more than 300 trucks, 24 helicopters and 12 planes to deliver the West's food and supplies. The Soviets have donated only 20,000 metric tons of rice. Says a British official: "They came in late and probably decided it wasn't worth their while to catch...
...spread throughout the calendar, but to baseball there is still a season. While waiting, bereft, for it to begin again, the true fan will find no brighter winter solace than Base ball (Abrams; 160 pages; $35). The 133 color shots by former SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Photographer Walter looss Jr. catch all the right action, from Maury Wills airborne on the way to second to Nolan Ryan throwing smoke. But in many ways the photographs are more striking when they turn aside to the game's quieter images...
...late and that the U.S. reluctance to censure the Japanese might encourage other nations to resume whaling. That could bring to an end the decade-long effort to save sperm whales from depletion. In Hasui's view, that is not a problem because, he says, the annual Japanese catch is a tiny fraction of the estimated 200,000 sperm whales in the oceans. Nor is there a substitute for the whale: in Japan, whalemeat is a prized delicacy...
...pamphlets approved by the state board of education. But industry representatives are skeptical. "We've heard a number of times that things were going to change," says Roger Rogalin, editor in chief of D.C. Heath & Co. Yet the formulas remain in place. "It's a catch-22 situation," sums up Bernstein. "Until the states stop requiring readability formulas, publishers won't stop using them to write and edit texts...
What a difference six minutes can make. Before Vermont could catch its breath, Harvard had charged back, scoring on six consecutive shifts...