Word: champ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consequence," adds Abboud, "big firms like A T & T can get capital, but small companies have a hard time. So the basic job-producing engine is drying up." No wonder pugnacious foreign competitors are winning America's markets at home and abroad. "It's like an ex-champ on the ropes," says Abboud, punching out the words...
...poised to invest many billions in the politically stable U.S.-as soon as they become convinced that they will not lose because of further dollar erosion. When these worldly investors plunge in, the stock market will surge, many jobs and business opportunities will be created, and the temporarily groggy champ will start to bounce back...
There were some good spots, of course. The basketball team beat league champ Penn, but don't bother looking up the hoop squad's record. It'll only make you cry. Or laugh--you see, it was a funny kind of year in sports...
Only Lapidus, a ball-smashing south-paw, has any realistic chance of placing high in the tournament. Defending team champion Stanford did not graduate a player, and it added Wimbledon semifinalist John McEnroe. McEnroe, teammate and defending individual champ Matt Mitchell, UCLA's John Austin, Elliot Teltscher and Trinity's Larry Gottfried should fight it out for number-one individual honors...
Higginson says he chose his starting eight on the basis of qualitative individual technique development, quantitative ERG scores, seat races, and the intangible judgments a crew mentor must make in molding a defending EARC champ. "But I wouldn't hesitate to reshuffle my line-up on Monday," he said...