Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshmen to win a varsity letter, but a 1978 car accident left him weak and underweight. He says that he asked to be red-shirted (sit out the games but attend practices) for that season. Kush scheduled him to play. Rutledge was averaging a poor 34.6 yds. per kick, and in last year's match with Washington he made a particularly bad punt. As he left the field, Kush allegedly grabbed him by the helmet and punched him in the face...
...country's ultra-reactionary oligarchy. Marxist guerrillas have kidnaped a score of foreign businessmen, extorting at least $40 million in ransoms. The kidnapings sparked a flight of foreign capital that further weakened the tottering economy of one of the hemisphere's more densely populated nations (531 people per sq. mi.). Presiding over the chaos was General Carlos Humberto Romero, 57, an inept military despot who was despised even by his reluctant supporters in the armed forces...
...overall cost of their crude, and other producers seem likely to follow suit. What really alarmed oil consumers was that the Libyan and Iranian rise, like that announced by Mexico a week before but unlike those announced by Iraq or earlier by Kuwait broke through the $23.50 per bbl. price the cartel set in June as a "ceiling" for at least six months...
...caused by Volcker's monetary policy moves, the international commodity and money markets last week were enjoying rare refreshing quiet; the dollar held its own in Europe and rose dramatically against the yen in Japan. At the same time, gold slipped moderately to end the week at $393 per...
...opened a huge lead as the Ivy League's premier receiver. His 18 catches and 281 yds, top the number two man. Brown's Mark Farnham, by six snares and 126 yds.... Harvard punter Duke Millard is tied with Dartmouth's Larry Margerum for the Ivy lead in yards per kicks with a 36.1-yd, average...