Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defensive Line: The Quakers defense has allowed its Ivy League opponents an average of just 12 points a game. The defensive line is anchored by 6-ft., 245 pound Dan Bauer, who leads the club with seven sacks. The other fellows up front are Kyle Stephenson and Eric Poderys...
...them. It's goodbye to the pound, the ounce, the gill (4 fl. oz.) and the rod (a quarter of a chain). But the furlong will stay because it occurs only in sports, as will the troy ounce (31 g, vs. 28 g for the standard ounce) because gold-bullion operations couldn't survive without it. As for the pint, the measure of morning milk and evening ale for millions, London hopes the Community will agree that it just wouldn't be cricket to abolish...
...hills rise in Starr County, west of McAllen, Texas. The moon darts in and out of clouds driven by a strong wind as Border Patrol officers Leo Laurel and Juan Trevino sit in the blacked-out cab of their Chevrolet Suburban. "They choose their sheriffs and deputies by the pound around here," jokes Trevino when asked why the police do not make more drug busts in one of the most important marijuana and cocaine importation routes in the country. "If an officer doesn't grab his man in the first couple of steps, he is away free...
...protesters and security forces. Whatever the toll, the outburst jolted Bendjedid's ten-year-old regime, which has sought to revive the country's petroleum-depressed economy with an austerity program that included cuts in subsidies for food and other commodities. The result has been sharply rising prices: a pound of beef now costs about $12. With popular discontent still unaddressed, the outlook could well be for further unrest...
...first gold medal of the Games, outrage abounded. Canadian Sports Minister Jean Charest announced the draconian penalty of banning Johnson from ever representing Canada on a national team again, calling the incident a "national embarrassment." Many saw the sprinter as pitiable, and some, like I.O.C. vice president Richard Pound, believed he had been duped as well as doped, saying, "Johnson probably wouldn't know what a steroid is." But across Canada spread a sense of bewilderment and anger...