Word: earned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lundberg, who must be rated an even bet to earn a position on the United States Olympic team next summer, shattered the school 200-yd. breaststroke record in only his second collegiate attempt at that distance...
...together the most comprehensive program. About a dozen right-leaning economists, including Charls Walker, Murray Weidenbaum and Albert Cox, are threshing out positions for him on everything from a value added tax (he sees merit in the idea but thinks it falls too harshly on those who earn the least) to a constitutional limit on spending (only "as a last resort"). Connally favors faster write-offs for capital investment, proposes large new jolts of defense spending and wants deep, budget-wide cuts in just about everything else, basically by allowing attrition to whittle the federal payroll. To increase trade...
Fritz Campbell, the talented freshman from Montana, posted three straight wins last night to earn himself a crack at the winners semifinals against St. Lawrence's Barone, the number-one seeded 134-pounder who pinned all preliminary opposition. Campbell's final win of the evening looked like an exhibition on takedowns. He allowed Barone to escape time after time and then leveled him moments later...
...Canadian Junior National Champion in the heavyweight division, has arrived on the scene to fill the gap left by the graduation of Craig Beling. Phills, who prefers upper body moves, has already shown himself a force to be reckoned with. He used a variety of throws and tosses to earn a third-place finish at the Colgate open, a preseason competition held earlier this month...
...count and check the half-million books that are supposed to be in its collection. In Fitchburg, Mass., library officials believe they could halt the loss of $8,000 worth of unreturned and stolen books each year by installing a $20,000 electronic detection system. The system would thus earn back its cost in fewer than three years, but the librarians have not been able to wangle the money from the city...