Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked like a runaway victory for Yale as it swept six of the first seven bouts to amass a commanding 22-6 lead. Harvard's only points came on a pin at the 142-lb. class, where the Crimson's Keith Oberg deposited Dave Miller on his back...
Spending $500 million to expand in the beer business, Miller introduced the 7-oz. "pony" bottle and bought the Lite label for its low-calorie brew, which became a runaway success; Miller staged a high-budget ad campaign that featured Mickey Spillane and ex-Football Star Bubba Smith to give a macho image to Lite. In order to crack the highest-priced market segment, which has been dominated by Anheuser-Busch's Michelob and imports, Miller last October began national sales of Lowenbrau made under license in its U.S. breweries...
Although the military interest was paramount, the concern in both Washington and Ottawa over the hazards from runaway space vehicles was also genuine. At his press conference last week, President Carter said he would take up with Moscow his idea that nations using earth-orbiting nuclear-powered satellites should either agree to install "much more advanced safety precautions" or simply stop launching them...
Coach "Pappy Hunt" was apprehensive before leaving on the trip, and he said last night the runaway victory was a surprise. "We really creamed 'em," he said...
...chief villain, besides war and the threat of war, is a runaway population. Although there are 2,500 birth-control clinics in Egypt, family planning programs in rural areas have been unsuccessful for reasons that are all too familiar in developing nations: lack of education, religious constraints and popular feelings that in large families children are a potential source of income. If the present annual population increase (2.3%) continues, demographers fear that Egypt will have between 60 million and 80 million people by the year 2000. Food production, which spurted after the completion of the Soviet-financed Aswan High...