Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because they can offer employees free skiing and sometimes free room and board. Still, they have payrolls the size of small telephone books-and for every job there are ten eager applicants, many of them temporary college dropouts looking for a fling on the slopes. The average pretax profit margin for the nation's ski areas last year was about 4% on revenues, or less than their owners would enjoy if they put their money in savings accounts...
Boston State came back with two tallies within a minute of each other and narrowed the Harvard margin to one as the period closed...
...Holy Cross harried the Crimson netmen with a tough full-court press and good outside shooting to dominate early play. Behind by as much as eight at one point. Harvard rallied and closed the Crusader margin to three at the half...
After opening a margin against the Minutemen, coach Bob Harrison took out guards Jim Fitzsimmons and Ken Wolfe and replaced them with Hal Smith and Wilkinson. Umass immediately went into a 1-3-1 zone defense which stopped the Harvard running game and produced a number of turnovers...
Harvard could not get its running game untracked in the second half and UMass opened up a 65-58 lead with seven minutes left in the game. Harvard fought back to within three points but could never cut the margin further...