Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There has been one bright light for Lee this season -- Jim Abbott. The 189 pound Abbott, who switched from heavy-weights to the 191 class after two matches, has a 7-1 record. His only loss came at M.I.T. against a 250-pounder...
PROVINDENCE, R.I., Feb. 25--Brown's and Harvard's rival wrestling coaches played wild tricks with their lineups here today, but only Howie Freedman's brutal, basic pin in the 177-pound match could finally decide a 22-12 Harvard victory...
...While Wilson was in Bonn attempting to reassure the Germans that the pound was strong and that Britain would have no major difficulty adjusting to the Market's higher agricultural prices, one of his ranking ministers-Board of Trade President Douglas Jay -was cutting the ground out from under him by declaring in London that entry to the Market might well mean economic ruin for Britain, beginning with a rise in food prices, which would climb 14%. The contrast did not serve to convince the Germans of British sincerity, which is already in doubt in certain quarters...
Today it costs about $1,000 a pound to send a payload into space; in ten years, the price is expected to drop to $1 a pound. And when that time comes, engineers should be ready with preprogrammed manufacturing processes that will require the vacuum and weightlessness of space. Joining some of the newer, tougher metals, for example, is a devilishly difficult problem on earth. In orbit, outside any artificial atmosphere, some of them need only be touched together to make a perfect weld...
...year. If falling U.S. rates reverse that flow, it would deepen the already worrisome U.S. balance of payments deficit, putting further strains on the dollar abroad. Similarly, the British dared only a cautious cut in rates to help stagnating industry lest a bigger step put new pressure on the pound. The Chequers "miniSummit" produced a mere gentleman's agreement, but it recognized as never before the growing interdependence of the economies of the U.S. and Europe, and so of the need for policies that mesh...