Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 4:16 elapsed in overtime, Krayer connected on a Brian McCormack rebound and watched the puck slide past Minnesota goalie Robb Stauber. The red light lit up. Crimson sticks, gloves and helmets flew into...
...stepped Krayer from the right side of the net. A backhand shot. A slow roller across the crease and into the net. Golden Gophers staring dejectedly at the red light. A group of Crimson players hugging Krayer...
...never saw it," Cleary said. "I saw the puck bouncing in front. I saw Eddie Krayer coming out of a pile. Then one of these giants [a Harvard player] jumped up in front of me. I couldn't even see the red light...
...mechanizing and becoming less labor intensive. Says John Keller, a professor of regional and community planning at Kansas State: "Many of these communities peaked in 1890. This has been the longest deathbed scene in history." Many towns tried to diversify in postwar years by attracting industry, especially low-paying light-manufacturing businesses. Many of those jobs, however, were eventually lost to even lower-wage foreign suppliers, especially during the run-up in value of the U.S. dollar in the early 1980s. During this decade, rural areas have created new jobs at only 40% the rate of metropolitan centers...
...January, during three days of meetings that rang with a fervor akin to that of an old-time tent revival, almost 200 residents anted up more than $250,000 to buy a small equity stake in a new Kansas City-based company that plans to produce light aircraft. Townspeople hope their investment will help persuade the company to put its assembly plant in Clay Center, where it would provide 300 jobs. Says Deanna Fuller, a former farmwife who heads the local economic development group: "These people just want to make it possible for the young folks to come back...