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...center Allen Bourbeau, the consummate big-ice speedster, the cramped confines might have been too large a handicap. And on top of everything else, the Teaticket native and former Massachusetts Player of the Year had never won a tournament before...
...economic problem of all: the trade deficit. That gap was largely the result of a U.S. dollar that became too strong during the early 1980s and thus made foreign products overly cheap in the U.S. and American- made merchandise expensive overseas. The high-flying dollar created an almost insurmountable handicap for U.S. manufacturers of everything from earthmoving equipment to microchips. Just as painful was the situation down on the farm, where growers were stuck with record grain surpluses partly because they were unable to sell enough of their crops overseas...
...AIDS is not directly at issue, the Federal Government has raised the matter. In support of the school board, it filed a brief citing the controversial Justice Department opinion issued last June to guide federal agencies regarding AIDS-related discrimination. While agreeing that under the law AIDS is a handicap, Justice officials decreed that contagiousness is not. Therefore, they contended, it is permissible to discriminate on the basis of concern over contagion, even if that concern is groundless and irrational. In the Shuttleworth case, Broward County is using arguments that run parallel to those in the Justice guidelines. "They support...
...Crimson spent the first half battling the wind as well as the Elis. Despite the handicap, Harvard jumped ahead, 6-0, on a try by Mark Sagarin...
...main handicap at the moment is its high production costs, which analysts put at $11,500 an auto, compared with $9,800 at Ford and $9,300 at Chrysler. A prime reason, ironically, is GM's multibillion-dollar rush to reduce labor costs by installing robotic factories, many of which still have bugs. Example: at Detroit's Poletown luxury-car plant, the taillights on some models tended to melt in the automated paint-hardening ovens. The technology * should gradually become a financial advantage as it begins to operate more smoothly. Says Chairman Smith: "You know we are not making clothespins...