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...Japanese, however, will help cushion the impact. At the annual Cabinet-level meeting between the two countries, held last week in Seoul, the Tokyo government pledged $100 million worth of new loans and promised to study the possibility of $59 million more...
...Rockingham Park, after a rain, things are different. The Rockingham Park track does not drain rain water very well. After a rain most of the track is a mire of heavy goo, but the rail still has the hard cushion. The answer is that the running surface is sloped a little towards the infield right near the rail. The rain water that falls near the rail drains off quickly...
After a rain the whole track looks like a big mud flat, but there is a difference. The track cushion, the running surface that the horses' hooves actually hit-below the loose dirt scattered on top, is hard near the rail and soft and mushy for the rest of the track. Any horses not running on the rail slides and slips in the uncertain going and runs poorly...
After building a 6-2 cushion in the bottom of the seventh on the strength of two-run blasts by Carl Yastrzemski and George Scott, the team indulged in their fetish for late-inning dramatics in a familiar...
...little Merilee saw an animal kicked. And swore on the spot never to kick an animal. Now the vow has been betrayed. Dear Alfred. She is writing him a letter. In this heat even rattle snakes entwine in the shade of a cactus. And on torrid desert updrafts eagles cushion themselves for making eggs fertile. But we humans were not meant for such comforts. Longings we may have, sensations that alone we are incomplete. Organs for coupling and mouths for communication. But pity us, old Alfred. We are, finally, not built for it. Togethered, humans lose their selves, forget their...