Word: grounds
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Another dependable quarterback is, surprisingly enough, at Brown. Bryan Marini throws hard, accurate passes and teamed well with end Greg Kontos last year. Kontos has been graduated, and Brown's ends are not a strong point this year, so Marini might find it wiser to concentrate more on a ground game. He has good backs behind him and is a good runner himself. Marini's greatest contribution, however, may be as an experienced signal-caller for the Bruins' sophomore-laden team...
...attempted theft occurred on August 19, Police believe the burglar climbed down a tope from the roof to a window and broke into the Widener room. He succeeded in removing the bible from its display case but tell while climbing down the rope to the ground...
...Indianapolis air-traffic controllers say that the small plane in last week's collision, for example, was not detected by airport radar. Had it been equipped (as all commercial carriers are) with a transponder that bounces back a strong radar echo, it might well have been spotted by ground controllers in time for a warning call that would have averted the collision...
...decay for months. Twenty-five-year-old bulldozer tracks are still plainly visible on the tundra today, testimony to the slowness of the land's ability to heal itself. But the basic problem is that most of the Arctic lies on a hard foundation of permafrost-ever-frozen ground that prevents drainage. In the brief summer months, a thin cover of tundra soil thaws a foot deep. But if the ground is gouged by heavy equipment, the permafrost is exposed. When it thaws, it turns into a small rivulet that continues to erode its banks, growing ever larger over...
...Peters, in the days when doctors could not control infection. Today, he pointed out, it is safer for a woman to have a hospital abortion in her first three months of pregnancy than to have a child. For this reason, said Peters, the statute cannot be defended on the ground that it serves to prevent death from the abortion procedure. This interpretation, he continued, would actually infringe on a woman's right to life. Moreover, it would be an unjustified invasion of privacy "in matters related to marriage, family and sex." Efforts to reinterpret the statute, Peters said...