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Although he has a gem of a tailback in Rick Villella, out for much of last season with a rib injury, he has little depth in the backfield, Carbone threw for 895 yards and had a 53.5-per-cent completion ratio last year, but lost topflight receiver Mark Farnham to graduation. But the Bruins will be strong up front, led by hulking senior Jon McCabe...
...many delegates as symbolic, an opening for Government intrusion into family life and a denial of the biblical description of the family. Paul Glover from Alaska, an evangelical minister and organizer for the Fundamentalist political group Moral Majority, said, "It's all in Genesis: God created Adam, whose rib provided the spare parts for the first loudspeaker (i.e., Eve)." Glover's wife Carolyn, a first-time delegate and a member of the national platform committee, chuckled. Glover earnestly went on: "The ERA as it is written is a blank check for homosexual rights"-even though the amendment does...
...years of the auto industry helped power the undeniable revival of Detroit's downtown. So, too, has the unusual rapport between black city officials and the community's white business executives, who rarely live within the city limits. The outspoken Young, for example, does not hesitate in public to rib his good friend Henry Ford II. When the former Ford Motor Co. boss complained in a speech that the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, the showpiece of the city's celebrated Renaissance Center complex along the waterfront, might be doing nicely in attracting conventions but was not producing enough "transient...
...city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front of onrushing trains; and to top it off, a projected $200 million deficit for the coming fiscal year. Faced with these losses, and trying to preserve a 500 fare, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority turned down...
...last month triggered Wall Street's worst panic in nearly two decades. Hunt had tried to corner silver and been badly squeezed, when prices plummeted from $21.50 per oz. to $10.20 in less than four days. Early last week Hunt was tucking into a steak dinner in the Rib Room of London's Carlton Tower hotel when a Merrill Lynch customer's man seated near by spotted him. After Hunt had returned to his room, the eager stockbroker called him on the house phone and offered his firm's help. The now bashful Texas billionaire slammed...