Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand clutched the decapitated body of a Barbie-like doll. In the cellophane-Easter-grass-filled lunchbox lay the head of the doll. Around the base, toy soldiers battled a never-ending...
...yesterday the Crimson came crashing down on UNH, and the only major question of the contest involved how big the margin of victory would be. The answer lay in the strong feet of Landry, Inga Larson, Brigitte Duffy and Electa Sevier, who all contributed goals as Harvard turned a 3-0 halftime lead into a 5-0 final...
Three weeks after it collided with a West German ferry, the French container ship Mont Louis still lay on its side last week in 45 ft. of water, eleven miles from the Belgian coast. Gale-force winds and 15-ft. swells had broken it in two, raising fears that 30 steel containers filled with uranium hexafluoride, raw material from which nuclear fuel is made, might be swept out of the ship's holds into the sea. Then the bad weather broke, salvage operations resumed, and by midweek the first of the containers, originally destined for the Soviet Union...
RARELY, HOWEVER, do the administrators step back and examine the fairness of that principle. Four years of college academics are surely not a pre-requisite to shoot lay-ups or catch touchdown passes. More importantly, college is not a pre-requisite for success in any number of other non-athletic fields. But, insist the defenders of the the present intercollegiate sports regime, football and basketball stars must also demonstrate aptitude and dedicating for college-level academics--even though those standards aren't impressed on businessmen or bakers...
...what can be done? Changing people's attitudes will take time, prodding and at least some intervention, yet the goal should be first to lay to rest the idea that academic success is a prerequisite for athletic success. Once that is taken care of, the path will be played to open up pre-professional football and basketball training--like minor leagues--in areas outside the college campus...