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...Canadian freshman Kat Wiley and junior standout Darlene Beckford--last year's collegiate indoor champion at 800 meters--the Crimson runners managed to grab eight of the top ten places with a convincing display of depth and speed...
...fact, with the exception of Yale's own Carmen Cozza, every head coach in the league picked the Bulldogs to grab the third consecutive title, and fifth in the last six during a recent Ivy League telephone press conference...
...slow to develop new small business computers, allowing such competitors as Data General and Digital Equipment to grab large parts of the market. At the same time, aggressive smaller companies, like Wang Laboratories and Lanier Business Products, took the lead in developing word-processing machines, which combine the functions of a typewriter and a computer. IBM has only about 25% of that $12 billion business...
...more chatted and watched the festivities from the highest span. The band was playing Satin Doll. At 7:01, the middle section of the top span simply gave way, and a moment later, the end sections fell free as well. Said a witness, Richard Howard: "You could watch people grab hold of the walkway. Then they just flew all over." Ann Dunford came within a hairbreadth of tumbling into the chasm. "I had one foot on the skyway," she said, "and I don't know if I felt it or heard it give. I stepped back and could...
...world automakers are now scrambling to grab a niche in the market for efficient, very high mileage compacts and subcompacts for the mid- to late 1980s, but Volkswagenwerk of Wolfsburg, West Germany, is quickly pulling ahead. Having largely phased out its venerable Beetle profile of the 1950s and 1960s for the engineering improvements and angular lines of the bestselling Rabbit in the 1970s, the company is now at work on the aerodynamically sleek silhouette of a new subcompact four-seater design that looks more like a Gucci slipper than...