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...fresh blood, pulling in young people with high energy but little campaign background. Former Sen. George S. McGovern and former Florida Gov. Reubin D. Askey are relying on home-state buddies and old supporters; the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is building a team of minority leaders who recently helped propel several Blacks to mayoral posts around the country...
...million device resembles nothing so much as a clumsy overstuffed armchair without a seat. On earth it weighs 340 lbs., but in zero-g an MMU can fly like a bird. A squirt or two of nitrogen gas from any of its 24 small jet thrusters can propel it in any direction. Strapped into this flying chair, an astronaut need only work the handle-like controls built into the armrests...
Koppel remains hot enough and cool enough to propel it. -By William A. Henry...
Going into The Game, Ernst is eleventh among Harvard's all-time single-season pushing leaders with 648 yards. A 105-yard performance on Saturday would propel him into fourth place. Not bad for a player who gained only 158 yards in his first four games...
When Coca-Cola began selling wine in 1977, the industry expected its consumer-marketing savvy to propel its brands to the top. Beginning with the purchase of Taylor Wine in New York State, it created a division called the Wine Spectrum and then added the West Coast's Sterling Vineyards and Monterey Vineyard to its basket of wines. Coca-Cola shook up the industry with an advertising campaign boasting that its Taylor California Cellars was preferred to competing brands, which it identified by name. Sales grew smartly, up 17% last year...