Word: jumbo
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...billion), inflation galloping at an estimated annual rate of 215%, and a third consecutive year of negative economic growth in 1983, Brazil (pop. about 131 million) is in acute social pain. Foreign bankers granted the country a brief breathing space two weeks ago with a $6.5 billion "jumbo" loan. But the U.S. Commerce Department had earlier added to Brazil's burden by ruling that steel exports to the U.S., which totaled $1.3 billion last year, were unfairly subsidized and thus subject to penalty duties. Further economic blows of that kind could threaten the country's long and gradual...
...match between Crimson Co-Captain Spencer Brog and the Jumbo's Wes Baker was the only close, contest of the day. After taking an early lead. Brog had to hold off a determined Baker, who forced the match to a fifth game which Brog held...
...Gold Knights, the Antelopes or the Bug-eaters. This last unfortunate appellation stuck, as to the grille and windshield of passing automobiles, until around 1900 a Lincoln sportswriter decided Bugeaters was not a proper nickname for the players and began to refer to them as Cornhuskers. Coach Jumbo Stiehm's teams, vintage 1911-15, alternately called the Cornhuskers and the Stiehm Rollers, were regularly undefeated against the likes of Notre Dame. During the 1920s, Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen lost to the Cornhuskers twice. Nebraska employed legendary Coaches Fielding Yost before Michigan and D.X. Bible before Texas...
...Grenada build a new "international airport," ostensibly to aid the island's tourist business. A Cuban construction brigade, using 85 pieces of Soviet heavy construction equipment, arrived in December to start the work. The airport's 10,000-ft. runway would be compatible with both tourist-laden jumbo jets and long-range military aircraft...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson will need to be on top of its game on Saturday when it takes on Hartwick, a team Shattuck calls "one of the best in the country" ...Harvard outshot Tufts, 29-7. Harvard goalies, Phil Coogan and Matt Ginsburg made only three saves, while the Jumbo netminder was forced tomake 14. Cornerkicks were 6-2 in favor of Harvard. Harvard is 4-0-1 in the Greater Boston League and has already won a share of the league championship...