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Harvard and UNH play similar styles of hockey, stressing the skating and passing game. The Wildcats place more emphasis on dogged fore checking, though, while Harvard holds an edge ion the defensive department UNH netminder. Todd Pearson is reputed to be a good pressure goalie though his goals against (3.57) doesn't quite stack up to Grant Blair...
Northeastern tried to answer back hitting every BC jursy in sight, but it was the Eagles' quickness and energetic fore checking that prevailed. They repeatedly relieved Husky blue liners of the puck in center ice or in their own zone, and built up a 3 -1 lead after 20 minutes...
Among other things, discipline at the academy is strict. Behavior "condemned by the word of God," such as profanity, smoking, lying, fighting, gambling and cheating, is considered grounds for corporal punishment and even expulsion. Be fore their children are accepted for enrollment, parents must sign a letter authorizing staff members to paddle students for continual offenses. (The letter explains: "Following the administering of the strokes, the staff will pray with your child, assuring him or her of their love.") Says Howard Riles, father of a sixth-grader: "What I hope is that when my daughter goes off to college...
Hosts of other favorable housing trends are popping up. One of the biggest surprises is that the inventory of unsold new homes is currently at its lowest level since 1971 (see chart). Says Robert Gough, a housing specialist with the Massachusetts-based economic fore casting firm of Data Resources Inc.: "Given dropping interest rates and shrinking inventories, a growth in housing starts will have to follow." Other bullish signs include a lofty rise in October building permits, which were a full 60% above the depressed level of a year...
...military came to the fore. The army had not been happy about the way our military involvement in Afghanistan had been handled. Some had argued that troops, not advisers, should have been sent in in 1978, before things got out of hand. But in December 1979, the general staff felt that 80,000 or so Soviet troops could get the situation under control...