Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman Michael Zimmerman faltered in the second set but won the third handily to defeat senior Rob Kresberg at number-one singles, 6-1, 2-6, 6-2. Kresberg is currently ranked third in the East and 23rd in the country...
...climate. But Soviet filmmakers know not to expect too much. In Vyacheslav Krishtofovich's poignant comedy Lonely Woman Searching for a Life Companion, a seamstress places a personal ad on walls around her town. The results are dire. The first man to answer the ad insults her, tries to rob her and then leeches on her kind nature. A trio of Young Pioneers, encouraged to take pity on the "sick and the lonely," offers to take her for walks in the countryside. She nearly loses her job. She never finds Comrade Right. But in the last shot, her neighbor...
...primary obstacle for managers trying to balance their books is their inability to set prices. By dictating everything from salaries to the price of finished goods, Moscow planners rob factories of any incentive to hold down costs or make a profit. For example, the prices of labor and raw materials are kept so artificially low that factory managers live in a financial fantasy land. "Right now factory managers don't know when they're doing a good job. They can say they're profitable even though they're selling tractors for $2,000 when they should be selling them...
...change of plans certainly didn't affect Crimson Co-Captain Rob Griffith, who scored four goals to continue his torrid shooting streak...
...Quakers top player, senior Mitch Speigel, boasts a win over the top player at West Virginia, the top team in the league and 25th-ranked squad in the nation. Columbia boasts two players, Rob Kresberg and Jeff Chiang, who are ranked 23rd and 41st respectively in the country...