Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minutemen had 30 returning lettermen (though many did not start in 1978). They had size and an experienced quarterback. They had a talented fullback in Cliff Pedrow, a former star Tiger fullback for my alma mater, White Plains High School. But Harvard had kept Pedrow to virtually nothing last year, and he was coming off a 100-yd.-plus multiple-touchdown day against Maine. Still, UMass was certain to be competent--in fact, they almost certainly would be a tough opponent...
Only the steady play of sweeper Peter Segienko and the Wesleyan forwards' insistence on imitating Giorgio Chinaglia's wife rather than the Italian star himself kept Harvard ahead...
...other bright spot, Dixon, also credited his performance to his mental attitude, or rather the mental games he played during the race. "I did lots of lying to myself," Dixon said. "I just kept telling myself the finish line was just over the hill...
Another important union demand was that the company increase the number of paid personal holidays so that more workers would be kept on the job. The company agreed to increase paid days off (not counting vacation) from 12 to 26 during the life of the contract. Pending ratification, neither side would discuss the noneconomic improvements or the size of the increases in the cost-of-living clause and pay rates. One unofficial estimate put the wage increase at between 9% and 12%. At present the combined basic wage rate for all classes of GM workers is $9 an hour...
...eerie operation. I resign myself to disaster every time I book with them." CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite, who has a house on the Vineyard, adds with wry understatement that just about everyone who flies Air New England "has the experience that schedules are not kept very closely...