Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PAUL, Minn.--Before last Saturday night, Ed Krayer's biggest claim to hockey fame was his unusually-low penalty minute total...
...deployed in ICBM silos would be supplemented by another 50 "garrisoned" on special railroad cars stationed on military bases. If a U.S.-Soviet confrontation loomed, the missiles would be moved out on 180,000 miles of railway across the nation. The main advantage of this scheme is its relatively low price tag: an estimated $12 billion for 50 missiles carrying 500 warheads. A somewhat cheaper option ($8 billion) would shift the existing silo-based MX's to railroad flatcars...
Yitzhak Shamir personifies intransigence. Wherever he goes, even if it is just to his office in Jerusalem, he is attended by low expectations for Arab- Israeli diplomacy. Still, his visit to Washington next week could advance the cause of peace if his encounters with the American President, Congress and the Jewish community reinforce the message he has been getting back home: something has to give on the occupied territories...
...coach Pingatore worried about Carl's low marks and the risk that he might lose the scholarship. Pingatore had an idea for bringing up Carl's grade-point average. He had Carl enroll in two correspondence courses -- American government and civics -- at the Loretto Extension Service in Wheaton, Ill. Carl did assignments in a workbook under the tutelage of Pingatore. He received an A in both courses. The grades were recorded on his regular high school transcript. There was no reference on the transcript to any correspondence courses. The only thing to set the courses apart was the postgraduation completion...
...without a degree. Today he thinks he understands what went wrong. From his first day on campus, every decision was made for him by the coaches. His summer job was arranged by the athletic department. He says that a few times during his first two years when he was low on money for the weekend, he went to one of the coaches and got $20. "It was something you were taught from the older guys -- 'If you needed money, go ask.' " Even Brian's courses were selected...