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Playing their fourth doubleheader in six days, the Crimson's lack of offensive performance may have been due in part to emotional drain...
...argument, which seems to be overwhelmingly prevalent among students, is that the longer semester drags on interminably and is unduly stressful. Heading into spring semester still frazzled from the fall is hardly productive. The educational question is mostly subjective--but what is very real is that our long semesters drain students...
...last fall when Johnson & Johnson launched a television attack ad that soon had the two companies decrying the side effects of each other's products. You know, the ones in which a very serious-looking actor "discovers" that Brand X just might possibly be more harmful than, say, swallowing drain cleaner. The confusing charges and countercharges prompted the major TV networks to pull the harshest spots; ABC went so far as to ban all drug commercials that take potshots at rival remedies...
Perhaps so, but there's rough water ahead. Moves are afoot in nine states, from Arkansas to Oregon, to place pro-gambling initiatives on the November ballot. The domino effect puts pressure on elected officials: Pennsylvania and Maryland racetracks watch their dollars drain into Delaware, which installed slot machines last September at two tracks; Tennessee envies the tax revenue reaped by Mississippi's Tunica County, thanks to Memphis gamblers; and New York is readying a constitutional amendment that will allow its slot hogs--who are now flocking to the Pequot Indians' Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut--to spend their money...
...realizing that Whitewater could be a drain forever, McDougal decided to sell the remaining lots to Chris Wade, the Whitewater broker who had bought Lot 7. The payment: the assumption of $35,000 in bank debt plus a used Piper Seminole airplane, valued at $35,000 by Wade. McDougal took the plane, and Wade began making at least some payments on the debt. Citizens Bank, however, did not release either the McDougals or the Clintons from liability for the full amount of the loan...