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...pressures of competition at Harvard, which one alumnus termed a "sink or swim" situation, was a popular topic for the panelists. Landers said that "a lot of it comes from the students themselves," and not from the faculty...
...away matches. Or maybe to hire a coach, or to rent a pool where the team can practice more than two or three times a week. Last year, Harvard's Athletic Department shelled out $250 to keep the waterballers afloat. This year, the squad has been told to sink or swim--without a penny from the University...
...them are scheduling it in prime time, pre-empting such new shows as The Invisible Man, Fay and Phyllis and established hits like Rhoda, Cher and Sanford and Son. Space's success could not only bite deeply into the audience ratings for network shows, but perhaps even sink a couple in the first few critical weeks...
...many American schools, teachers are overworked and overwhelmed. They are lucky if they can give ten minutes to correcting a student's paper. Some teachers doggedly diagram sentences in the hope that the structure of language will sink in and provide a foundation. Others forget about structures and trust that reading literature will ensure, perhaps by osmosis, a better grasp of the language - although the definition of literature now has often descended from Shakespeare and Conrad to Woody Allen and Kurt Vonnegut...
Compared with a year ago, to be sure, profits still look bad. Citibank calculates that second-quarter earnings of the 1,331 firms in its survey fell 17% below a year earlier (see chart); manufacturers were down 22%. Scruggs predicts that for all of 1975, corporate earnings will sink 20% to 25% under 1974-the most severe year-to-year drop since...