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From that nadir, Crimson pitcher. Ellen "Sprout" Jakovic took over Although her teammates committed an abysmal six errors behind her, which resulted in eight unearned runs, the fast Jakovic pitched a gutsy game, closing the door on the Bears for the final four innings and allowing the Crimson to repent for its mistakes. With the score tied at 9-to-9 in the fifth the Bears put runners on first and third with two out. The game was in the balance, and Jakovic fought the Bears designated hitter to a 3 and 2 count before walking her. Then with...
...remaining 32 minutes of the contest, the Crimson couldn't do anything right--allowing Yale to control all activities on the court. Most of the contest saw a Harvard team which appeared completely perplexed and stupefied by the Elis, a situation which reached its nadir late in the first half, when the Bulldogs outscored the Crimson...
...longer seems farfetched. The latest Market & Opinion Research International poll showed such a Social Democratic-Liberal coalition getting a 41% approval rating. By contrast, Labor trailed with only 31%, and the Conservatives received a mere 25%, the lowest rating registered for any ruling party since Labor hit its nadir during the 1976 monetary crisis...
Elsewhere, Sondheim resorts to an amalgam of garish Music Hall tunes, catchy Broadway melodies, and pseudo-classical arias. The nadir occurs with the bouncy "By the Sea," which sticks out lie a toenail in a meat...
...York Stock Exchange well above 50 million shares on two successive days, the Dow Jones average of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks closed at 954.69, its highest level since March 1977. The Dow's rise of about 200 points, or 26%, since its late April nadir was read almost everywhere on Wall Street as a sign that the low point of the 1980 recession is all but past. Says William LeFevre, vice president of the Purcell, Graham & Co. brokerage firm in Manhattan: "What the market seems to be saying is that the bottom may be at hand. The worst...