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...offense, designated hitter Joe Mackey provided the power in the nightcap with four RBIs on a pair of singles and a sacrifice in three trips to the plate. Mackey continues to be the hottest hitter on the club, picking up much of the offensive slack...
...some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will reduce output to keep supply and demand in balance and prices high. Indeed, Venezuela, Kuwait and Libya have already decreased their production of oil; but Iran, Nigeria, Indonesia and others have stepped up theirs, more than making up the slack...
...dispute. A pint of whisky a day, enough to make eight or ten ordinary highballs, provides about 1,200 calories-roughly half the ordinary energy requirement-without any food value. As a result, an alcoholic usually has a weak appetite and often suffers from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency. The slack cannot be taken up by popping vitamin pills; heavy alcohol consumption impairs the body's utilization of vitamins. At the same time, excessive intake of alcohol also affects the production and activity of certain disease-fighting white blood cells, giving the alcoholic a particularly...
Roth was the top point-getter on the team and clearly the slickest stick handler of the group, but he alone, or even with his linemates Bob Goodenow and Danny Bolduc, could not carry the team. Steve Dagdigian, Jim McMahon and Kevin Carr took up the slack when Roth's line was having an off night, as did the line of Jim Thomas, Leigh Hogan and Ted Thorndike...
Vavricka dropped in 15 points for the night and Steurer, a sophomore guard, finished with 16. Steurer, a super-smooth ballhandler and floor leader for the Tigers, shot 8-14 from the floor and took up the slack caused by the loss of classmate Armond Hill. Hill, a backcourt superstar, was recently declared academically ineligible for the remainder of the season...