Word: rests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave us a really inspiring pep talk at halftime," Greenberg said. "He told us we had 35 minutes to win an Ivy championship, which we'd remember for the rest of our lives. We really came out strongly in the second half...
...NOTEBOOK: The lightweights face Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., next week, racing in two lightweight fours...While the first varsity heavyweight boat will be racing in the Redwood Shores Regatta, the rest of the heavies, joined by a few lights on the third boat, will be rowing against the Big Red and Princeton in Ithaca...
...marks. Scores of Western dealers are swarming over the Moscow studios. They buy through the Ministry of Culture, which generally keeps 40% of the purchase price and passes on 10% to 15% to the artist in hard currency, which can be spent only outside the U.S.S.R., and the rest in rubles. Payment is always slow, and then there...
...highly scenic area "the way it was before," that is close to a physical impossibility. Earlier mishaps suggest that only about 10% of the oil from such a massive spill (this one totaled at least 10.1 million gal., perhaps 12.6 million) will ever be recovered. Some of the rest evaporates. But as the lighter components escape into the air, most of the oil turns into a thick black gunk that eventually sinks to the bottom. There it is joined by oil that first coated beaches but little by little washes back into the water...
Because the Committee for State Planning controls only 30% of Elektrosila's production, the factory's managers have extraordinary freedom to plan, manufacture and sell the rest of the plant's output as they see fit (total annual production value: 162 million rubles, or $260 million at the official Soviet conversion rate). Elektrosila has boosted its foreign sales from less than 15% of its production a few years ago to about one-fourth of its current output. "We are now the masters of our own castle," says Valentina Murinas, 50, the factory's chief economist. Elektrosila's new spirit...