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...fourth quarter of 1980, is now beginning to show signs of a new decline. The index of leading economic indicators, a harbinger of business trends, slumped by .8% in December, the first decline since last May. High interest rates and surging inflation are clearly beginning to be a damper on growth...
While their loss to Brown and subsequent third-place finish in the Ivies (the first time in the tournament's three-year history Harvard hasn't won) put a temporary damper on Crimson spirits, none of it means anything in regard to the Easterns...
...competition. But more than that, the Beanpot is (to borrow an oft-used phrase) "a season in itself." Two quick wins at the Garden transcend any number of embarassing disasters in Ithaca, Potsdam or Hanover. Conversely, failing to uphold a reputation as number one in the Beanpot puts a damper on even the most successful of years...
...those scientists, Sheldon L. Glashow, professor of Physics and 1979 Nobel Laureate, said yesterday the "highly destructive continuation of outrageous behavior by a hooligan government" will "put an extreme damper on (scientific) exchanges...
...Vent dampers. Before a furnace or boiler can heat a house, it first must heat itself. Only after the inside temperature climbs to about 130° F does the furnace begin transferring warmth. Yet whenever the system shuts off, much of the accumulated heat within the furnace escapes up the flue. The vent damper is an electrically operated plate that blocks the flue during an oil-or gas-burning furnace's off cycle, thus retaining the heat. The plate then rotates to an open position when the unit trips on again. Department of Energy studies show that dampers...