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...pinch yourself, it won't go away--it happened just like that. Murray, second in scoring on the team with eight goals and 13 assists, had a tough game. He forechecked effectively, superbly assisted Greg Olson's brilliant penalty-killing, played a solid right wing on the "Instant Karma" connection with Olson and center Mike Watson--but the puck wouldn't go in for him. "We hit the post three times in the last five minutes...when that puck went in"--Burke's clincher--"I just said, 'It's about time...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: At Long last Beanpot | 2/10/1981 | See Source »

...pinch, Reagan fell back on describing a game he had played in for Eureka. "So when the light went on I said, 'Here we are going into the fourth quarter on a cold November afternoon, the long blue shadows settling over the field, the wind whipping in through the end of the stadium'?hell, we didn't have a stadium at Eureka, we had grandstands?and I took it up to the point in which there were 20 seconds to go and we scored the winning touchdown. As a blocking guard, I was supposed to get the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...helped stimulate demand for money until now, bankers, businessmen and economists expect the looming business slowdown to allow rates to fall back slight ly. Says Milton Hudson, a senior vice president for Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.: "These current rates are going to hurt economic activity as well as pinch the demand for credit. We are expecting no real growth at all during the first quarter of 1981, and it will be a close call as to whether or not the economy will actually decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Recovery Forecast: Not Yet | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...that it was healthy enough to be set free. "We've done this before," shrugs Delta Spokesman Bill Berry. "Once it was a pelican with a sore neck. He had to keep his head out of the box, and every time the flight attendant passed, he tried to pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Birds of a Feather | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...COBB, the new chairman of the Architecture Department of the Graduate School of Design, is not just another academic. Cobb came to Harvard this fall with more than two decades of practical experience--and no teaching--behind him. Unlike some of his academic peers, Cobb has known the pinch and compromise inherent in realizing any design. He demands that architects respond to the possibilities and pressures of society. The best architecture of the past has managed to meet the functional, aesthetic and spiritual demands of the people it serves...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: Needs of the People | 11/6/1980 | See Source »

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