Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agricrime has become so bad in the state of California that the annual loss in crops and machinery is estimated at $30 million. Avocados and artichokes are among the hottest of the hot crops. Observes Gerhardt Clasen, an avocado grower in the town of Fallbrook: "Thieves can strip a tree in half an hour and get $15 for their work." Even more amazing, according to Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront...
...more famous and affluent schools-including Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Stanford-have formally notified the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that they may refuse federal funds rather than comply. Yale, for one, will lose at least $580,000 a year (about 1% of its annual operating budget), a loss the medical school is willing to take, says Dean Robert Berliner, to "stand on principle...
Just as Harvard failed to score in close after sacking UMass's punter last week, the Crimson could not come up with the one play it needed to polish off this drive. St. John was stopped for a loss trying the right side, then sacked for a 14-yard loss when he dropped back to pass. As the clock ticked off the final seconds, St. John passed to Curry on the sideline, but the speedster was brought down immediately. Harvard had come up empty again...
...while broken vertebrae and muddy multi-flexes have grabbed the ink of the first two football weeks. Tuke's been latching on to opposing ankles and legs, and in last week's rainy loss to UMass he came up with his first interception of the year...
...next big event was the Nationals, held at the Louisiana State Fairgrounds at Shreveport. He lost to J.D. Seales, who at that time was the fifth ranked flyweight in the nation. After sustaining his second straight loss, a disgruntled DiNicola decided to throw in the towel, and he quit the team to rejoin his unit...