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Despite these worries, coach Frank McLaughlin sounded confident about upcoming Ivy confrontations after last night's romp. Would his team falter against live competition? "No, we're just about where we want to be at this point," McLaughlin said. "We haven't played great, but we'll be concentrating a lot harder when Columbia and Cornell come...
Suddenly, however, somewhere in the third episode, the series takes off, and not for another second does it falter or flag The reason: at this point Attenborough has reached the place in his story where life can actually be photographed. Many of the creatures he now begins to talk about-the crocodiles, for example-have let evolution pass them by and have remained the same through the eons...
...whole absurd structure was bound to collapse, and it did. When the OPEC nations raised the price of oil in 1973-74 and caused a worldwide recession, Poland's exports, instead of continuing to rise as Gierek planned, began to falter. Unable to lay off any workers?a taboo under the full-employment doctrine of Communism?Gierek had to borrow more and more money from the West to keep going. Poland's foreign debt rose from $4.8 billion in 1974 to $25.5 billion in 1981. Servicing and repayment of the loans, which are owed to 15 Western governments...
...soon as the plot develops beyond this point, Porter and his cast lose control over it. Confronted with the need to establish real contact between characters, create atmosphere, or sustain a joke beyond its original gag, nearly all the leading actors falter. In an early courting scene LaVergne and Jamerson stand together uncomfortably, tossing ambiguous comments back and forth, devoid of mood or any apparent emotional contact. Later the ecstatic Lutiebelle launches into "I Got Love," a song affirming her brand-new confidence, without having evinced even the subtlest change in bearing...
...every other that he could remember--haunting driving ranges and practice putting greens, playing a few satellite tour events, reading Dan Jenkins golf novels, and waiting. Waiting to tee off, waiting to string three solid rounds together, waiting for the front-runners in qualifying tournaments to falter so that his score would earn him a TPA card, which would enable him to play with the Nicklauses and Trevinos and Watsons...