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With only 3½ minutes left to play, Indiana was leading Iowa in basketball recently by a runaway score of 92-41, but the Indiana fans were hungry for victory - ravenous, in fact. When Iowa raised its total to 46 points with 30 seconds to go, the Indiana fans began chanting, "Hamburgers and fries! Hamburgers and fries!" The baffled Iowa players got three more points while stomachs knotted in the stands. Seven seconds to go. Iowa missed a shot and then another at the buzzer to make the final score...
...Ballet Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov would be this season's top box office draws in Manhattan. Yet tickets are scarce as unicorns at Manhattan's City Center for American Ballet Theater's 35th anniversary festivities featuring Baryshnikov, the Leningrad Kirov Ballet's latest runaway genius, whose ability to leap and hang serenely in air drives audiences to frenzy. A few blocks south, teenagers, housewives and businessmen -many of whom have never seen ballet before-pour through the doors of Broadway's Uris Theater, where Nureyev propels himself through four ballets at each performance...
...move forcefully to halt the worsening recession is growing. In fact, Ford's policymakers are in the process of charting a course toward more fiscal ease. Neither Treasury Secretary William Simon, Chief Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan nor Federal Reserve Chairman Burns wants to give up on vigorously fighting runaway prices. In their view, soaring costs are a key factor in the business downturn because they force consumers to put off purchases of everything from autos to airline tickets. Even so, Simon and Greenspan have said that a tax cut might be appropriate if the economy continues to weaken...
...fraud or oppression" on the part of the company and two claims adjusters. To the jury, the case was apparently a classic instance of the little guy v. a big corporation. To a lawyer for Mutual, which has filed a motion to throw out the award, it was a "runaway verdict" that would only help to hike premium costs for all health-insurance policyholders...
...Chairman," Rostenkowski replied, "you've got a runaway caucus out there. You've embarrassed a lot of the members." As Rostenkowski explained that Mills' power was slipping from him, Mills drifted away, as though in a trance. "You know I'm a sick man," he finally said. "I've got terrible pain...