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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Bill McCurdy was flu-ridden and did not make the trek to New Jersey. For McCurdy, and the ailing members of his squad who did not make the trip and had to content themselves with sprints for the porcelain bowl, it was a dismal end to a dismal season...
Policy analysis is not urban planning and, unlike the other design disciplines, does not share "a basic reliance upon creativity and the ability of the practitioner to synthesize content from several fields and to formulate and apply physical, as well as social, economic and political principles to affect the natural and man-made environment...
Dave Rogers swooped down the lane in traffic to make it 64-59 with 2:03 left to play, but with a stranglehold on the lead, Columbia was content to go into a stall...
...years ago, Brazilian rock stars were content with aping the antics of the Beatles or the Monkees. One of them, Roberto Carlos, had a wooden leg, but that never stopped him from cavorting around in psychedelic fashion through jungles, or perching atop the giant Cristo statue on Sugarloaf Mountain above Rio and Copacabana beach. He would sing sugar-candy love songs and had a huge teenybopper following, but if you were really with it you listened to Sergeant Pepper's instead...
...with the choking reply, "No, no, she went down like a rock and now she's gone--they'll never raise her." The advice is well taken. Cussler's book, like the famous event it recalls, is a singularly memorable disaster. And if the American reading public isn't content to let it sink slowly out of sight, it may be in store for even more unpleasant times in the future...