Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brother, in fact, is very brotherly and accessible. People stop by the Times Square trailer to get information or pick up maps and brochures about the city. One evening, Patrolman Ray tried to talk the ubiquitous Mrs. Kearns into going to a nice, clean place like the "Y" for a good night's sleep. She replied that she prefered to remain among her friends at Times Square. So Ray took her out a cup of coffee. "I kinda got a thing about her," he says...
...along expressway lanes reserved exclusively for them. Another is "dial-a-bus" systems. These would employ small vehicles that would run frequently along fixed routes but have no set stopping points; a passenger would simply dial a central office and the next bus would stop at his corner to pick him up. Of course, the best answer to urban transportation problems will be a mix of buses and rail-based systems...
...Christmas exams. U.C.L.A. obviously intended its usual brand of play: defense keyed around a menacing full-court press; scoring generated by fast breaks fed by quick outlet passes from Walton. When the Bruins use a more methodical, set offense, it also revolves around Walton as shooter, passer and pick setter. That strategy almost broke down two weeks earlier when U.C.L.A. beat a tenacious Maryland team by only one point, emerging from that unnerving contest looking merely mortal...
...last week lifted the Dow Jones industrial average 60-odd points in three days. One reason: heavy selling has depressed prices of two-thirds of the stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange to ten times earnings or less, and investors now and then move in herds to pick up bargains that by past standards seem remarkable. But so far every such rally has quickly run into a wall of selling by investors seizing the first opportunity to get out and cut their losses, and the recent one was no exception; the Dow sank at midweek, and despite...
...then that's the beauty of ECAC hockey, predicting the top five finishes in order is about as easy as defeating UCLA's hoop squad with a pick-up team. I hate to admit it, but that old cliche, beaten to death by every division coach I've talked to holds true: Any Division One team can beat any other division team on any given night. Uggh...