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...already solved its problem with the salary cap, which helps teams keep costs down but makes for a difficult chore in choosing who is to be kept on a team...
...scandals. His towering strength in the polls was in part a reflection of his high name recognition and the weakness of his opposition. With no sizable assets of his own and still saddled with $1.3 million in debts from his 1984 race, Hart found raising money to be a chore even at the best of times. Moreover, from the beginning, many party leaders were looking for an excuse to block his maverick candidacy. As a key state chairman said late last week, "Hart always struck me as a time bomb. The name change, the age, the stories of womanizing...
...dusty half-acre potato patch near the tiny (pop. 1,000) farming community of Tulelake, Calif., scientists in canary yellow overalls clambered aboard a tractor last week and began what looked like a workaday farmyard chore. They were planting ordinary potatoes, 2,000 tubers in all, that had been treated with an extraordinary additive: a genetically altered bacterium designed to inhibit the formation of frost. This experiment -- and a similar one performed only five days earlier -- marked a turning point in the efforts of scientists to apply the advances of recombinant DNA technology to agriculture: the first authorized release...
...Fogg was the first time since the takeover of University Hall in 1969 that Harvard arrested students. That violent, unprepared-for event came as a shock to Harvard--a sudden blow that engendered a long period of self-questioning. The arrests last month--performed like a perfunctory chore--were by comparison narrow tactical gains, their success a non-success...
...Harvard defense, which has played well in its last two games, will be without Captain Scott Collins, who suffered a severe knee injury at Philadelphia. Collins was the gridders' leader on the field as well as off, and making up for his absence will be a tough chore for the entire unit. Fellow linebacker Bob Joyce has also had a fine campaign and will be the primary person asked to fill the void...