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NCAA hoop has picked up the slack a bit, now that nobody has any idea of who the best team in the nation really is. San Francisco had its cover blown two weeks in a row when Notre Dame and Nevada-Las Vegas proved that the Dons' schedule is about as formidable as Beaver Country...
...team's performance this season has been the result of that coaching philosophy. Each game, a new player took over the role as team leader. If Caryn Curry was not scoring one night, then Wendy Carle picked up the slack. If Ellen Hart was not making the steals, then Katherine Fulton adjusted and sparked the defense...
Ahmed Kayali's younger brother Hasan will pick up some of the slack in the triple jump, but he is the only leaper with proven ability. "Again," McCurdy said, "we're looking for some support behind him." Freshman Russell Brooks may provide some help...
...market for heroin followed the classic laws of narcotics economy. When the French Connection was cut in 1972, the slack in the American market was soon filled by Mexican heroin, but European addicts were temporarily strung out. At the same time, American withdrawal from Viet Nam cost Southeast Asia's Chinese Tai Los (dope bosses) their most lucrative market. According to one American narcotics expert, "It was simply natural that the twain [Asian supply and European demand] should meet...
...decision and put the man on as a regularly scheduled Mad Prophet of the airways; that emboldened by this success, the executives would grant a weekly slice of prime time to a revolutionary group something like the Symbionese Liberation Army so they can stage their heists before a slack-jawed mass audience; that meantime the Mad Prophet would be taken over by a conglomerateur and be come an apologist for multinational capitalism; that this development would cause another ratings crisis and that his network employers, unable to fire him because they too are owned by the conglomerate biggy, would arrange...