Word: eighths
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...also promised to sell China on credit a communications satellite system that will cost about $500 million, and a 50-billion electron-volt accelerator, used in nuclear research. This would cost up to $200 million and would be the largest such installation in China, but only one-eighth the energy of one now operating at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Finally, the two countries formally agreed to exchanges of scholars, journalists and cultural groups. To head off any worries in Moscow about the agreements, the Administration emphasized that the U.S. was not providing Peking with anything that...
...Crimson managed an overall sixth in the slalom race with Eric Klaussen leading the way in 14th place, and an eighth in the cross-country as Andy DeMars finished a strong 20th. But the giant slalom and the jumping events did Harvard in, despite David Rand's jumping performance that brought him a second-place finish in the nordic combined scoring system...
Harvard's women skiers had a more successful weekend, finishing eighth, far behind Middlebury and Dartmouth, but most importantly, besting Plymouth State by 27 points to avoid slipping back into Division...
Julie McAree placed eighth in the 100-meter butterfly, and will swim again tomorrow in the 200-meter event...
...strengthening U.S. forces in Europe as well as for upgrading the nation's strategic arsenal of nuclear-equipped missiles, planes and submarines in order to improve the Administration's bargaining stance in the current SALT talks with the Soviet Union. Carter proposes, for example, to order the eighth submarine in the $21 billion-plus Trident program, in which costs have been shooting out of sight. He also calls for spending $237.5 million to continue development of the cruise missile system, which the Pentagon wants as a counterweight to the Soviet nuclear strike force...