Word: footwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before B.U. had time to remember Ferrante's damage of last year, Landry began her personal onslaught. At 10:15, the Lexington native took a Laura Mayer feed, eluded tow Terrier backs with some mind-boggling footwork, and drilled a bullet into the upper lefthand corner of the goal...
This week Nova opened its ninth season with the now familiar topic Computers, Spies and Private Lives. The show's strength came not from its focus but its footwork and such Orwellian touches as the telephone confrontation between a debtor and a mechanized collection agent: "Speak to me. Your response or lack of it will become a permanent part of your record." Next week's show, a more traditional piece on modern efforts to crack the secrets of the great fiddle makers, manages to scoop Scientific American, whose October cover story on the acoustics of violins misses much...
Crimson wing halfback Laura Mayer, who dazzled her Tufts counterpart with her fancy footwork along the right sideline and catalyzed the Crimson offensive effort with a goal and an assist, took advantage of the Jumbo's strategy...
Political leaders are at last beginning to recognize that Social Security has major financial problems that can be solved only by slowing the growth of benefits. The Social Security Administration's own actuaries predict that the retirement fund will be out of money by 1984. Fancy financial footwork can avert bankruptcy that year, but the program's long-term problems cannot be avoided...
...small profit represents a significant improvement over last year's second quarter, when the company lost a stunning $536 million. Skeptical observers, however, wondered whether Chrysler's black ink was a demonstration of the company's improving health or just the outcome of some fancy financial footwork...