Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's young defense looked impressive, with linebacker Brad Stinn and cornerback Rocky Delgadillo, both ailing for most of training camp, playing without incident. However, Mark Layden, who had been battling Marc Mills at strong side linebacker, injured a leg and may miss five weeks...
...like his budget-balancing, tax-cutting daddy, has caught on with the Los Angeles Rams. He ran into a good deal of luck, as the Rams' quarterbacking ranks were depleted by Vince Ferragamo's defection to Montreal, Bob Lee's tender throwing arm and 'Bama grad Jeff Rutledge's leg injury...
Embarking from Seattle, the Cavalier plows north through the stomach-turning swells of the Gulf of Alaska and the whipping gales of Bristol Bay. It squirts through the Bering Strait and after two weeks reaches the most perilous leg of the 3,200-mile journey: the 270-mile trip from Wainwright on the western flanks of northern Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. Here the tugs putter along at four to five knots, creeping above shoals that, in places, lie only 5 ft. beneath hulls still weighted down with 100,000 gal. of diesel fuel. Kardonsky, 56, looks up from his charts...
Vicino has erected 50 blow-up billboards, and so far reports few problems. The company says that it has received no complaints from neighbors irritated by the inflated advertising. The only untoward incident was when a prankster in Newport Beach, Calif., stuffed a mannequin's leg into the mouth of a giant killer whale advertising the Los Angeles Marineland amusement park...
...impact of PET scanning so far has been in studies of the brain. The technique is painlessly providing detailed information about how a normal brain reacts biochemically to such stimuli as the eyes seeing light, the ears hearing a story and even the movement of an arm or a leg. For example, when a subject moves his right hand, the PET scan indicates increased glucose use by the region of the left side of the brain controlling the action. Physicians have begun to use PET scanning in determining therapy for people who have had strokes or epileptic seizures. Measuring metabolic...