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Stargell unloaded on the first pitch from reliever Tom Hume with Dave Parker and pinch-runner Matt Alexander aboard. Hume replaced Tom Seaver, who held the Bucs to two runs through the first eight frames...
Typically, the first question is what necessities are really necessary. Even in a pinch, most Americans are reluctant to cut expenditures for such practical aspects of their lives as tuition, rent, utility bills and essential or even vacation travel. In consequence, they start out by trimming what economists call discretionary spending: buying things that are fun, frills or otherwise not absolutely essential to daily life and work...
...within an academic context. Colleges are valuable, expensive and above all nonprofit institutions. Federal grants given for research have often been regarded as a general fund that can justifiably be used for allied but unauthorized expenses. University administrators, in fact, say that what is needed now, given the economic pinch, is more accounting flexibility rather than less...
...officials, Epps manages the inchoate collection of student organizations here from his busy office. He's also the head disciplinarian for undergraduates, carrying out whatever sentences the Ad Board hands down, so no matter how amiable he is, he might not be the man to go to in a pinch...
...Harvard Mystique is one of those books that never should have been written. Lopez does not write well; when he gets in a pinch, he resorts to quoting other authors or citing reams of ridiculous data--in four months of the New York Times, for example, Harvard was mentioned in connection with its graduates three times more than all other colleges combined. Essentially, the book is a 237-page collection of odd quotes, bizarre statistics, dull anecdotes, and drivel. The author strikes a particularly banal chord when he tries to add some organization to his endless list of alums...