Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another subtle bias favors athletes. Unfortunately, not many 280-pound Asian tackles are running around. To displace the Harvard Varsity Club's vested interests in the student body would be impossible if not undesirable...
...nearly four years, Texaco and Pennzoil have been corporate America's equivalent of Iran and Iraq, fielding armies of lawyers to pound each other with salvos of briefs and appeals. Last week the war came to an end. Both sides announced that they had reached an agreement to settle the historic dispute that drove Texaco into bankruptcy court and has already generated about $100 million in legal fees, with more sure to come...
...level in nine years. Part of that decline came about because many farmers have reduced acreage under cultivation and the size of their herds. But, at the same time, unusually low feed and fuel prices have helped farms cut the cost of producing a bushel of grain or a pound of beef...
Clemson is the only town in the United Stateswhere the site of a six-foot tiger on the loosedoesn't shock anyone. And 400-pound men in orangeoveralls don't even elicit a second glance...
...quality of children's TV programming. But seldom have they had so much to complain about. A typical afternoon of kidvid these days can be a mind-numbing march of cartoon superheroes like He-Man, BraveStarr and the Defenders of the Earth. Many shows, from The Transformers to Pound Puppies, are based on hot-selling toys and seem intended to shuffle kids straight from the TV set into the toy store. Worst of all in the critics' view, under the deregulatory aegis of the Reagan Administration, the Federal Communications Commission has seemed little inclined to do anything about the situation...