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PITCHING: Last year's team earned run average ballooned from one of the EIBL's best in '80 to a miserable 5.01, with control problems and erratic fielding at the heart of the problem. That trend will obviously have to be reversed if Harvard is to contend...
...anchor at first base Potentially the team's heaviest hitter. Farrell played for Orange Coast Community College in California last season, hitting in the high 360s in one of the nation's tougher circuits Newcomer Elliott Rivera will fill in any where in the infield, as well as contend for a spot in the outfield...
Advocates of a bilateral nuclear-weapons freeze contend that the plan makes sense, since both the U.S. and the Soviet Union already have large enough arsenals to annihilate each other's populations many times over. Supporters also reject the charge made by hawkish critics that the movement is ultimately a pacifist one that plays into the hands of the Soviets. They point out that the freeze proposal calls for verification. Critics, however, respond by claiming that a freeze on "testing, production and further deployment" of nuclear weapons cannot be verified without on-site inspection, which Moscow has always resisted. Beyond...
...utilities contend that the hikes are necessary to cover the rising costs of fuel, labor and materials. Critics retort that gross mismanagement is the real problem. Both utilities committed themselves in the late 1970s to buy oil under long-term contracts at prices far higher than those now prevailing. Conservation has cut electrical consumption, but the companies must still incur tens of millions of dollars in expenses to dispose of oil that they are obligated to buy but do not now need...
...course, the world's 750 million Roman Catholics and 65 million Anglicans may never merge. Despite the commission's optimism and its best efforts to deal with the general nature of the papacy, there is the particular nature of John Paul to contend with. Whatever his own ecumenical design, he is centralizing and strengthening papal authority, rather than moving it in a direction that would attract Anglicans...