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Bowdoin began the second half playing as if Knute Rockne had stopped by for a pep talk during the intermission. Hustling with great intensity, the visiting 11 pushed forward for one of the few times in the game, determined not to be humiliated. Their efforts, however, went unrewarded as six minutes and 28 seconds into the half, the Crimson's Dave Stone ran the score up to 4-0. After the goal, a dejected Bowdoin lost its enthusiasm for good...
...world jumped, in different directions. International financiers praised Volcker's move; after all, he announced the policy immediately after returning from an International Monetary Fund conference in Belgrade, where those same financiers had most likely given him a pep talk for such a program. Stock market investors ran scared, seeing only the deepening recession Volcker's plan would induce. Liberal politicians didn't like this talk of lowering the standard of living for the sake of such unromantic concepts as "managing the money aggregates." Bankers, who had always looked to the Fed as a bellwether for interest rates, were...
Unlike the crew team which merely moonlighted as a pep team, the new squad takes its cheerleading responsibilities seriously: practices two times a week, behind the stadium and in the IAB special exercise room. But so far its conscientiousness has gone unappreciated by many. Its first time out, the band let forth with a jeering blast, then rolled up their pants legs, wrapped their ties around their heads and minced their way through a burlesque routine. The cheerleaders were not amused...
...Government sedans of Jimmy Carter's top security aides began rolling through the gates to let off their passengers at the West Wing entrance. When the summons had gone out from Carter, the officials were scattered across the capital. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had just delivered a pep talk for the SALT II accords at the posh Cosmos Club. He dashed off before he had a chance to eat, then ordered his driver to stop at a McDonald's, where he picked up a hamburger and a root beer. He arrived at the White House clutching...
...were so shocked," Elizabeth R. Mason '81, one of the fifteen SHS board members last year, said of the survey's findings. She shouldn't have been. The so-called guides--selected on the basis of a brief application form--were let loose in September with only a pep talk from Kyriazi. Although the SHS charter empowers the board to "conduct ongoing evaluations of the program" and to dismiss guides who fail to "perform required duties," board members never checked up on the guides until January. "By the time we realized that we had done something wrong...