Word: lames
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...game was not as close as the score. Even though Philadelphia Quarterback Ron Jaworski attempted 38 passes, a Super Bowl record, completing 18, for 291 yds., the Eagles were lame on the ground, gaining only 69 yds. Philadelphia's main problem was Oakland Quarterback Jim Plunkett, the Super Bowl M.V.P., who seemed to have all day to pass-and did, completing 13 of 21 for three touchdowns. Plunkett had waited a long time for his moment of glory, enduring injury in New England, humiliation in San Francisco and, finally, a year on the bench at Oakland...
Bane, who today leaves the moribund Education Department--where she called herself a "lame-duck bureaucrat"--reserved comment on those demands for now. "I don't know the internal structure of the Kennedy School, so I'd rather not comment" on the students' sweeping recommendations, she said...
Other strong Crimson performances came from freshman Susan Kim, and sophomores Kathy Davis, Maureen Gildea and Terri Frick. Representing the new wave of swimming, Kim cavorted around behind the starting blocks in a gold lame vest and Devo-style glasses before winning the 100-yd. IM and the 50-yd. breaststroke with times of 1:05.46 and 34.37. And although they were recovering from the flu, Davis, Gildea and Frick all managed to pull out wins with gutsy performances...
...lame duck session many observers predicted would achieve little more than passage of interim appropriation bills has produced a surprising volume of legislation, several heated procedural confrontations, and a blunt foreshadowing of the ascendency of the right on Capitol Hill...
Perhaps most significant to Harvard are the repeated threats, from both Reagan advisers and Hill conservatives, of a push to cut federal spending for education and repeal federal affirmative action programs. Neither issue came up during the lame duck gathering, but Hatch, Helms and Thurmond have made clear their intention to take Reagan up on his campaign promises to reform federal education policy...