Word: nucleus
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With an extra line, an extra goalie and a new assistant coach, second-year Coach Rita Harvard should have few problems backing up a nucleus of experienced players...
Eventually his contracting firm became the nucleus of the Olayan Saudi Holding Co., a Riyadh-based-conglomerate that boasts revenues of $300 million a year from such varied sources as sales of International Harvester construction equipment and the distribution of Campbell's soups and other foods. An Olayan-controlled insurance firm, the first in Saudi Arabia, earned $101 million in brokerage fees last year; another Olayan outfit owns or controls 35 companies engaged variously in farming chickens, desalinating water and building Riyadh's new $4 billion airport...
Back from last year is a nucleus of veterans, including high scoring swingman Donald Fleming and senior co-captain Mark Harris and Tom Mannix, not to mention the backfield tandem of Calvin Dixon and Robert Taylor...
McLaughlin plans to start the nucleus of returning lettermen, with one exception. Besides Harris and Fleming up front, and Dixon and Mannix in the backcourt, 6-ft., 10-in. junior Bob McCabe--out all of the last two years because of a pair of shaky knees--will start in the pivot...
...convincing the Penns and the Princetons in the neighborhood won't be easy. For that, McLaughlin will depend on a strong-but numerically sparse--nucleus of returning veterans, and a tall, talented, but inexperienced group of newcomers...