Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coach Billy Cunningham had just watched his team, the most prodigally gifted in the N.B.A., lose to the league's second worst club, the Houston Rockets, and he needed a lift. Emerging from a disco after a few consoling beers, he got one. A man who claims to hold the world's record for push-ups (9,000 in five hours) offered to demonstrate his prowess. Cunningham gingerly stepped onto his back. Up, down, up, down-two full push-ups with the 212-lb. coach aboard. "Only in the N.B.A.," said Cunningham, "do you meet crazy people like...
...full just winning the Eastern Conference playoffs. San Antonio, winner of its own division, is a well-balanced club that has Forward George Gervin, the highest scorer in the league (28 point average a game). While the 76ers are fighting it out in the East, the Western Conference will hold a trial by fire guaranteed to produce a team that will be undaunted by Philadelphia. Portland is recovering from an astonishing run of injuries. At week's end Star Center Bill Walton had missed 21 straight games after his left foot was operated on for tendinitis. He should...
Glanz discovered one reason for the "incredible passivity" among students: many simply save little energy for schooling. Nearly half hold after-school jobs even though they generally come from upper-income homes. "Some are saving for college," she said, and besides, "it costs a lot to be a kid these days." To many of the students, she said, high school and college are archaic prerequisites for gainful employment. What really counts, they think, is contacts and good luck. Moreover, she observed, "not studying is a way of asserting oneself. There is a slave mentality of committing small sabotages to subvert...
...week in a kind of warmup talk to the Communications Workers of America at a White House reception, "The inflation rate is creeping up. And unless we stand firm, cut out waste, have a sound economy, stabilize the dollar, have the energy package passed, cut down unnecessary spending and hold down the budget deficit, we are all going to be robbed of the [economic] improvements we made with your help during the last year...
...outline a comprehensive, drastic policy, Carter was expected to announce a series of small but symbolic, and concrete, steps that the Government would take in order to set an example of anti-inflationary restraint for the rest of the nation. Some probable highlights of the talk: > A pledge to hold the federal budget for fiscal 1979 within the targeted $60 billion range. That would at least imply a threat to veto any spending bill that seems likely to push the deficit higher. Leading candidate for a Presidential turndown: a farm bill that would pay grain and cotton farmers subsidies...