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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These big up-front puck artists also lack experience, but the feeling is that a competitive start and no early blow-outs will lead to continued improvement by the obviously-talented forwards. "We're relying on freshmen, and it's a big jump for them," says Cleary "The question is how fast they can make that jump...

Author: By Jim Hershberg and Bruce Schoenfeld, S | Title: The Icemen Cometh | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

...clambake on Cape Cod, an intramural swim meet and a date with Ethel for the Yale basketball game. "School work was never discussed," said Henning P. Gutman '82 who found the letters on the topshelf of a closet in Winthrop "way in the back where you had to jump up to reach...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Kennedy Letters Misplaced | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...1960s tried to bolster their sagging balance of payments by forbidding companies to export pounds or dollars to build plants abroad, businesses evaded the controls by borrowing in the Eurodollar market. The amount of Eurodollars available for borrowing sharply increased after the 1973-74 jump in oil prices. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, unable to spend their petroprofits fast enough, began parking many surplus dollars in banks outside the U.S. Cartel members now have $74 billion in these Eurodollar deposits. Bankers also started lending large amounts of Euromarks and Euro-francs, which are West German marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clash over Stateless Cash | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...behind the Senator. Carter's approval rating in an Associated Press-NBC survey has risen to 24%, a climb of five points from a month ago. Better yet for Carter, this poll also disclosed that half of all Democrats now want him to seek reelection, a notable jump from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President and the Phantom | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...honor that Physicist Tsung Dao Lee, who became a Nobel laureate at the precocious age of 31, wondered what he could do for the rest of his life. Indeed, as the time of the announcements approaches each fall, many contenders are so afflicted with Nobel fever they literally jump whenever their telephones ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nobel Prizes: That Winning American Style | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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