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...figured he'd lag his first putt," Crimson co-captain Jon Mosle said, speaking for the surprised crowd of onlookers. Moroda plays in the fifth slot for a team which has traditionally had little impact on intercollegiate golf...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Golfers Knocked from ECACs by 20-Foot Merrimack Putt | 10/9/1981 | See Source »

...latest scholarly publications minimize the present-day importance of white racism and blame defects in black attitudes and skills for much of the still wide lag in income of blacks behind whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowell on the Firing Line | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...write introductions to his plays that speak of ritual Indian drug use and the tradition of the shaman--and all of them are full of shit. You can't follow Shepard from word to word, because his transitional sentences are emotional. His characters are suffering from psychotic jet-lag and even though the fact that their minds have been careening from one end of the cortex to the other cannot really count for travel anymore, but they move all the same. It's the language of the awful silence...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: 'Jump, Jump' | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

...stay with Bond for news in the battle of the sexes, though he tends to lag a bit farther behind the times on this score. His partner in Eyes is (natch) a great beauty, but also (surprise) an archaeologist. Though Melinda (Carol Bouquet) has the annoying habit of never moving her lips when she speaks, she does contribute handsomely to the doings in of the evilsowers. And I even detected--though this may be a mistaken impression--a certain cooling of Bond's ardour for romantic digression. This may be a concession to Moore's advancing years, though...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Eye on the Empire | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...allies is stunningly evident. From gliders to missiles, a dozen nations are seriously challenging U.S. technology and salesmanship. Yet the men from Lockheed, Boeing, Martin-Marietta and scores of other U.S. firms were upbeat. The Soviets were quiet, their stodgy aircraft, like the Il-86 transport, displaying a technological lag. And Ronald Reagan's new defense plans and action in lifting Jimmy Carter's "leprosy" policy (U.S. embassies were ordered not to help arms sellers) were a tonic that may nudge the $57 billion industry off a plateau, providing thousands of new jobs. America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Symbols of War and Peace | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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