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...forward does have the advantage of having played 15 relatively complete games, however. Webster logged only two minutes in the cagers' opener against Merrimack before suffering a slight concussion while diving for the ball and having to sit out the rest of the contest...
TIME's economists predicted that the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, will rise 2.9% next year. Even that modest pickup may be enough to cause a slight drop in the unemployment rate. Board members estimate that in 1986 the rate of joblessness will fall to 6.8% from today's 7% level. The current rate represents a marked decline from the November 1982 peak...
...Portland's Mayor J.E. Bud Clark. Said a spokesman: "We understand that other people have problems. But Portland, like every other city, is having to swallow hard and really look at its own finances to see how we can best serve our own people." Duarte's request is a slight embarrassment for the State Department, since El Salvador is already receiving a sizable chunk of American aid. Indeed, in fiscal 1986 the U.S. has plans to send that country $350.6 million in economic aid, as well as $132.6 million in military assistance...
...training, and finally the American boxer stopping hundreds of punishing sounding blows with his forehead and chin and upper cheekbones. Apparently, Rocky thinks that masochistic training strengthens the bones in the human head to the extent that a steamroller running over the prepared cranium will cause only a slight scratch above the left eye. Warning: readers should not attempt this sort of thing at home, on their spouses, children, pets...
...Split end Joe Connolly suffered a slight ankle injury last Saturday but will play in the Yale game...