Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then two years ago, with the onset of the nation's deepest postwar recession, the balloon burst. As costs skyrocketed and the flow of corporate promotions slowed, the advertising business ran into trouble. Today, after struggling through one of the worst periods in its history, advertising is far more sober and hungry than it used...
Reliever Larry Brown settled down after relinquishing a run-scoring single that ran the count to 9-0, pitching the rest of the game and allowing just two runs...
Aramco is soon to be nationalized by the Saudi Arabian government. Its hiring policies are clearly discriminatory--one of the primary requisites for employees is proof that they are not Jewish. M. Colyer Crum, associate dean of the Business School who ran the program for Aramco officials, doesn't seem to have been bothered by this. In fact, among the course materials he distributed were sample letters proving the bearer was Christian. Crum disclaims any responsibility for the company's policies; but by accepting them, he in fact acquiesced in the Saudi Arabian government's racism...
John Balaz recounted the time he ran into a chain-link fence during a minor league game. "I hit the crossbar, but I was luck I missed the upright because I would've been in real trouble...
...Heroic and exhausted, for when it began to crumble soon after, the townspeople were willing to spend neither the time nor the money to restore it Eventually the bridge fell into the river and the commuting public returned to Mr. Cooke's penny ferry. After Mr. Cooke, Harvard College ran the ferry, the same boat to Charlestown that Paul Revere used on his famous trip...