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Veteran Billy Doyle went the distance for Harvard, allowing only two hits, to secure his third victory of the year Meanwhile, center-fielder Bruce Weller and Martelli provided plenty of power for the visitors, each hitting a homerun to propel Harvard to an early 8-0 lead...
Cornell's hopes rest largely with its pitching staff, which might help stalwart Greg Myers enough to propel the Big Red to number one. Now a senior co-captain, Myers has 18 wins in the past three years to his credit and is currently 1-0 in 1982. Voted the best pitcher in the Cape Cod League this summer, the right hander has also been All-League three years...
...most startling and significant example of this change in underlying trends is the price of oil. Nothing did more to propel inflation ever higher during the 1970s than the success of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in raising the benchmark price of a barrel of crude from $1.80 in 1970 to $34 now. Besides the skyrocketing increases in retail prices of gasoline, the spiral helped drive up everything from apartment rents, which are affected by fuel costs, to the price of food, which is hauled to supermarkets in diesel-burning trucks...
...hysteria so steel prices will stay high, while his henchman track down dirt on the heroic labor-organizers who are trying to bring about a social revolution. Their speeches are not just background color thrown it to give characters an excuse for passionate devotion or to propel a romantic plot Rather they are the lyrical heart of the script, bringing intensity and believability to characters who otherwise conform with relish to the movement's righteous stereotypes...
Nevertheless, these "very obscure" men are already jockeying for a position they insist could propel them to the Statehouse...