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Dunster/Mather threatened to ruin the South shutout on the game's last drive. Following a South personal foul, halfback Mark Rosen slanted off tackle 3 times for 19 yards, and QB Keith Dowds passed for 18 yards and scrambled twice for 15 more to take the Dunsters to the one as time expired. A late hit call gave the Dunsters another chance, but the Crush held...
...They were just playing games. They were going to ruin the country; they didn't know how to run things," she says. "Our history books would say a person was great one day, and suddenly change the next." For example, Lynn notes, books suddenly began to laud the country's King Ch'ing, an ancient monarch, because "the Gang of Four wanted to set up a ruler just like a king. People didn't know what was going...
...dispute centers on the 93-member orchestra's demand for a four-performance week. But that would ruin the opera financially, says Anthony Bliss, 67, the Met's executive director, and "would return it to the dark ages-season after season burdened with overwhelming deficits." Though the Met has made money in the past four seasons, its surpluses have been minuscule-just $102,000 last year, for example. By the Met's reckoning, the musicians would drop the workweek from 25 hours to 21, while their average salary would rise from $37,200 to $40,000. This...
...plays the man he is doubling for) grows into his leadership role, acquiring the wisdom that should accompany leadership. In due course he is undone through ironic circumstances. And after that, one must witness the undoing of Shingen's clan through the misrule of his successor. Kurosawa contemplates ruin as he contemplates glory, with an objective thought as to what can be salvaged from disaster in the way of a momentary beauty, the accidental congeries of color and composition that men create as they go about their often bloody affairs. It is not much. But it is clearly enough...
Going into the final mile, Schuler said, he saw Columbia's second man gaining. But Schuler toughed it out, pushing to the top of Cemetery Hill to ruin any Lion hopes for a one-two finish...