Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slowing down the tempo of the game limits the scoring. Princeton yields only 54.2 points per game, while netting only 63.9 points a game. Without the three-point shot, which the Tigers sink at an amazing 48 percent clip, scoring in Princeton games might be as low as Paul Simon's earlobes...
Harvard was led by two-victory performances from Todd Cameron at 118-Ibs. and Tim Keirstead at 150-Ibs. With Harvard on the low side of a 13-3 score against the Tigers, Keirstead scored a reversal with nine seconds left in the match, giving him a 5-4 victory and sparking the Crimson comeback...
...cause of these contortions is one of the worst election laws on the books, the Pollyannaish effort to limit the amount a campaign can spend in each state. Enacted in 1974 under the guise of fairness, these artificial ceilings are ludicrously low for the Iowa caucuses ($770,000) and the New Hampshire primary...
...long-shot candidates. "It's sort of like the speed limit," says Pat Mitchell, Paul Simon's Iowa coordinator. "It keeps the carnage down." Most campaign spending experts, such as Herbert Alexander of the University of Southern California, would like to see the state caps eliminated. "They're ridiculously low," he says, "and they lead to subterfuge." All too often, in fact, the result is an amoral minuet in which the end (the White House) justifies all sorts of quasi-legal chicanery. "There is retail chiseling, like renting a car in Massachusetts and driving it to New Hampshire," explains...
...indicts Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega on a wide range of drug charges. -- Unrealistically low campaign- spending limits present candidates with some curious moral and logistical quandaries. -- It is no < longer this man' s Army, as the Pentagon moves to expand opportunities for servicewomen...