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...events didn't play such a large role for all of the Gov students. As one freshman noted as he struggled out of Lamont with an arm-load of Gov 40 readings, "Are you serious? If it weren't for law school, you'd never catch me in this grind...
...Richard's 18 axes. One purpose of the tour is to promote the Stones' latest album, Black and Blue, which has sold more than a million copies since its release two weeks ago. With 39 concerts scheduled in two months, Stone Singer Mick Jagger prepared for the grind with tennis workouts near his house in the south of France-and got a bit black and blue in the process. "For the last tour it was karate," he said. He makes tennis look tougher...
Sticking Plates. As the two plates grind past each other, friction causes them to stick together briefly at some places. Then, driven by powerful and little-understood forces deep within the earth, they tear apart to resume their journeys, causing minor to moderate tremors. But in the Palmdale region, they have apparently been firmly locked for more than a century, while adjoining parts of the plate have slid as much as 30 ft. Some day, seismologists warn, the stalled sections are going to have to catch up with the main bodies of the plates. Strains are inexorably building...
...golf team came into the Ivy golf tourney last Friday with two titles on the line, but after the 36-hole grind at the Springdale C. C. was over, although Alex Vik had successfully defended his Ivy crown, the Crimson had fallen to Princeton and Penn...
Reggae has produced a boisterous, exciting local record industry. Operating on a six-day schedule, Kingston's five record plants and twelve major recording studios grind out 24 new singles every week. Top singles that averaged 25,000 copies a decade ago now routinely sell between 80,000 to 100,000 units...