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There was thus a certain irony when the sanctions announced by Reagan last week were so mild that they amounted to a gnat's bite. Even more than Carter's reprisals, the new sanctions were symbolic, not substantive; Reagan may have conveyed the Administration's moral outrage at the crackdown on freedom in Poland, but his measures will have almost no impact. And by acting without support from Western allies...
...with lower fares on instate routes. They forced Air Florida to reduce sharply its Miami-Tampa flights and all but abandon the Miami-Orlando run, but the airline retaliated, charging Eastern with "predatory pricing" before the CAB. Eastern spokesmen denied the Air Florida challenge, saying, "They're a gnat. We didn't even know they were there." As a result of deregulation, that may change...
Freshman Don Pompan, playing at two in his first league match ever, turned in the most amazing performance of the day as he defeated Lion David Cooper by a gnat's eyelash--that translates to 3-6, 7-6 with a 5-4 tiebreaker (ulp), and 7-5. Pompan broke Cooper's service twice to win the last four games of the match, after fighting off two match points in the second set and charging back from 3-0 and 4-1 deficits in the third...
Dales was swirling his irons with a ragtime rhapsody to the piping winds and looked like he would run away with individual scoring honors. Then his putting touch began to unravel and he missed a slew of putts by about the width of a gnat's eyelash...
...Crimson's Brian McAndrews lost a hearbreaker in the 600, nearly losing a couple of limbs in the process. Not only did McAndrews lose the race to Princeton's Joe Libertelli, 1:13.26 to 1:13.27, but he came within a gnat's eyelash of sustaining a serious injury when the four top finishers collapsed in a heap after lunging for the tape...