Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yeah, UNH. Get to them in a minute. First, a B.U. epilogue. Consolation game against Cornell, meaningless except to Ithacans. (Every B.U. game is a big game--for the other team.) Many of the Commonwealth Ave. fans don't even show up for this one--and the team doesn't do much better...
...Except for a change to a stiffer and longer pole, his style has remained more or less constant, although the Eliot House senior did have to make some adjustments since the short runway in Brigg's Cage cut more than 35 feet off his approach...
...lived in Shanghai as a refugee from Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1947, much of the time inside the European ghetto, twelve blocks long by five blocks wide, where his father was unable to find work and his mother sold cloth to dressmakers. "It was like the wild West, except that it was East. There were dog races, horse races, gangsters, pimps and whores. Americans were all but immune from the law. It was a cosmopolitan place, where you could buy and sell anything if you had the money." Blumenthal lived from starvation job to starvation job. He dragged bodies...
...addition, K&E got the right to put some of its employees on Chrysler's planning and marketing committees-an unusual coup for an ad agency. Except for some relatively minor scraps, K&E will handle all of Chrysler's advertising, a departure from the usual auto industry practice of having different agencies for different product lines. Says Kelmenson: "It's my dream of total involvement...
Clearly, Chrysler needs a lift. It lost $204.6 million in 1978, even though it earned $43 million in the fourth quarter, entirely from nonautomotive businesses. All automakers except General Motors plan a series of temporary plant closings this month to reduce bulging dealer inventories, but Chrysler's is by far the largest shutdown. Four of its five domestic auto plants and one that makes trucks and vans will close for at least a week, idling about 20,000 workers. Says Iacocca of the switches amid shutdowns: "We have to get profitable, we have to carve out a niche...