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...really only missed one extra point," Lynch explained yesterday, recalling his three-cushion shot in the Holy Cross game that bounced off both goal posts before falling back short of the three points...
Then in the seventh, Petrocelli, leading off, unloaded his home run, giving the Red Sox a two-run cushion. Boston added a run in the eighth on Fred Lynn's RBI single. Reliever Dick Drago, the third Boston pitcher, protected that edge the rest...
...four of the stadium's six huge, 147-ft.-high grandstand sections were swung closer to the playing field. That maneuver marked the final successful test of the revolutionary 50,000-seat stadium, which uses advanced technology to change its shape and purpose by literally sliding on a cushion...
...concrete terms, the Kissinger-drafted speech will urge greater aid for the poorest nations from the industrial states and the newly rich oil producers. It will renew his call for a world food reserve of 60 million tons to provide a cushion against crop failures. To solve balance of payments problems, it will suggest giving International Monetary Fund loans to countries that suffer trade shortfalls. In the face of opposition from key Cabinet members like Treasury Secretary William Simon, Moynihan is expected to announce that the U.S., for the first time, may be willing to tamper with traditional free-market...
...Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria and the Arab sheikdoms into a kind of plutocracy of the poor. Countries like Zaire and Zambia (copper), Morocco (phosphates) and Malaysia (rubber) also gained large amounts of foreign exchange. Still a third group, including South Korea, Singapore, Brazil and Mexico, exports enough manufactured goods to cushion the impact of worldwide inflation...