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Without Dixon, the trio of Donald Fleming, Bob Ferry, and Kevin Boyle did most of the ball-handling for the Crimson, and the three were constantly harassed by the quicker Brown defense., "We have good height, they have great quickness." Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin said after the game. "Their quickness won it for them tonight...
...part, the Crimson played heads up defense as well, equaling the Bruin total of six steals, and breaking up at least as many passes only to see the ball fly out of bounds. But the more aggressive Brown attack showed up in the rebounding department, as a smaller, quicker. Bruin squad out rebounded the Crimson...
...Quicker delivery times and lower initial costs were the reasons cited by Pentagon planners for urging the military to reconsider the C-5N. The existing plane is less expensive to manufacture than the proposed C-17, though the new craft was designed to operate at lower costs. To add to the attractiveness of its proposal, Lockheed offered to build the planes for the Government at a fixed price, without reimbursement for any cost overruns. Lockheed also promised to pay penalties to the Government if maintenance costs of the planes exceed company guarantees...
...outpouring of technology from Bell Labs seemingly knows no end. Now in the testing phase of development are tiny superconducting switches, smaller than a speck that can operate 100 times quicker than today's fastest transistors Scientists are also working on a new computer memory chip that can store 100 million bits of information (enough to hold the complete text of War and Peace) on a wafer an inch square...
Although inflation decreased significantly last year--from a 12.4-per-cent rate in 1980 to 8.9 per cent in 1981--student fees continue to rise at a quicker pace than inflation. "As long as endowment income is distributed at a rate that will not keep pace with inflation, student charges will go up faster than inflation," Thomas O'Brien, the University's financial vice president, said after the University's annual financial report was released earlier this year...