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...housing discrimination. Clinton supported a state civil rights bill in last year's legislative session, but opposition from small businesses that feared it would be too costly kept it from being passed. Most black leaders nonetheless have given Clinton credit for trying, and black votes have helped mightily to propel him to victory in important primaries this year...
This is not the first time a company has tried to capture customers with a calculating can. Two years ago, Coca-Cola came out with a similar promotion, dubbed MagiCan, but withdrew it in three weeks after a number of the mechanisms that were supposed to propel cash or prize certificates out of the opening malfunctioned...
Belknap had beaten Fraiberg earlier this season in the Howe Cup tournament, but Fraiberg had won the last two times, including a huge 3-1 win two weeks ago to propel Harvard to a national championship...
...enthusiasm was not enough to propel the dream into reality. "Wind developed a reputation for not working, and it had the stigma of a tax scam," says Robert Thresher, the wind-program manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. Eventually the problems caused power companies to back away. And by 1985, when the tax credits expired, the remaining wind towers began looking more and more like monuments to a lost cause...
Although these numbers are not horrible for an average player, more is expected and needed from the team captain to propel the Crimson into the win column...