Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Kathy Lowry led the Crimson charge, pasting her easy early opponents, trading bouts with the toughies, and finishing with a rush as she lost but three times in 16 bouts. By beating Yale's Peacock, who was also 13-3, she qualified for the individual finals on the basis of indicators (touches for minus touches against...
...could remember another show's having been killed so close to its premiere. Part of the problem, apparently, was that Little was a last-minute choice, replacing John Amos (Good Times), who had demanded unacceptable creative control. Part of the problem also was CBS's rush for a new series, which left T-A-T-with little time for second thoughts...
Those under 30 may not realize it, but there was an age when interest in professional team sports meant baseball, period. Pro football, basketball and hockey were in varying stages of infancy or awkward adolescence. The date was still far in the future when ABC Sports would rush in a TV camera crew every time three starlets got up on skateboards. Baseball reigned coast-to-river, with St. Louis as its Western outpost, but the entire country knew it as the only game in town...
...cartel members are jabbing up prices because the panicky rush for supplies by oil companies on the small but highly volatile "spot market" shows that they can get away with it. Normally most petroleum is bought by oil companies under long-term contracts with OPEC suppliers, but 3% to 5% changes hands for whatever price a seller can get. In times of scarcity, demand surges-and so do prices...
John M. Grady, a member of RUSH, said yesterday that he thinks the study reflects a fear on the part of the institutions. "If some of the Fair Share demands are put into effect, then these institutions are going to have to start providing more funds to the community through taxes. Their only response is to come out with these massive figures...