Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average of 45%. In the U.S., where inflation in recent years has never exceeded 12% for any length of time, the effect on profits would be less pronounced. Yet it would still be sizable, especially for capital-intensive industries such as steel and oil, and electric utilities. Lee Seidler, an accounting professor at New York University who is a strong proponent of the new system, has calculated its impact on some firms in recent years. At Union Carbide, for example, the 1975 earnings of $746 million would have slipped to $655 million, a 12% slide...
...told me before the season that we would beat Hofstra and then lose to Lowell," Harvard coach John Lee said last night, "I would have had no conception of that." And yet that's what almost happened to the Crimson, probably because Lee took the Terriers too lightly...
With several of his regulars questionable because of minor injuries, Lee chose to keep them on the bench and let them mend for the upcoming Ivy League schedule, trotting out his reserves instead. The result was a match that went down to the final bout before Smith put it away...
...next bout, a near-fall earned Harvard's Ed Bordley (167 lbs.) two points when Lee felt his matman deserved three, and the Crimson grappler went on to lose...
...Fred is a much better wrestler than that," Lee said. "He's just got to start wrestling on the mat the way he can in the practice room...