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Coach Carole Kleinfelder said Sunday that Brown out-rebounded the Harvard women by approximately a two-to-one margin. Harvard managed to scrape up a paltry 19 rebounds, and obviously that kind of figure just doesn't make the grade against any half-decent team, which Brown amply proved itself to be. In addition, shooting was sub-par, and was limited to a very few people...
Easier said than done: AMC has less capital than its competitors with which to develop new models and reduce the size of its cars in order to meet future stringent fuel-economy standards. But it did scrape up the money to bring out a new '78 model, the Concord. It is a luxury compact that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent...
...many communities in south Texas, though just as hard hit, have been able to scrape by without having their gas turned off. But the hardships have been real. With the cost of exploration rising, producers have hiked prices for most consumers from 36? per 1,000 cu. ft. in 1972 to more than six times that amount today. For an average family, that means a bill running anywhere from $40 to $70 higher per month. Many people have had to move to smaller houses, others double up with relatives. Farmers have curtailed planting-gas is needed for irrigation pumps...
...Lance's income this year will not cover his expenses, he will have to scrape up more money. In January he said he had $325,000 in cash, but presumably he has had to dip into that. The Lances have already put up for sale their Atlanta mansion, named Butterfly Manna, at an unrealistic price of $2 million (purchase price...
...born Leopold Antony Stokowski in the Marylebone section of London in 1882, the son of a Polish cabinetmaker and a mother of Irish descent. They managed to scrape up enough money to send him to Oxford and to the Royal College of Music. He got a job as an organist in a London church, then moved to St. Bartholomew's in New York. In 1909 he became the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. He was young (27) and virtually untried, but magisterially handsome and already with the mark of genius upon him. Under the gaze of his stern blue...