Word: slights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon, the 400-yd. medley relay, a Yardling foursome of Dave Phillips, Dean Putterman, Tony Meier and Mike Miao buried all doubts about the Class of 1984's swimming ability with a three-second-plus win. Although fellow freshman Julian Bott gave the Crimson's other relay entry a slight edge on the backstroke leg, breaststroker Putterman stole the lead which Meier stretched out before handing it over to Miao, who raced him with the victory...
Some pollsters at that time, however, were getting results that showed a slight Reagan lead. ABC News-Harris surveys, for example, consistently gave Reagan a lead of a few points until the climactic last week of October...
Though borrowing by corporations has helped stimulate demand for money until now, bankers, businessmen and economists expect the looming business slowdown to allow rates to fall back slight ly. Says Milton Hudson, a senior vice president for Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.: "These current rates are going to hurt economic activity as well as pinch the demand for credit. We are expecting no real growth at all during the first quarter of 1981, and it will be a close call as to whether or not the economy will actually decline...
...monumental task for a politician of great charm but less vigor, of coruscating rhetoric but lamentable lack of administrative skill. Even Foot's appearance arouses more affectionate regard than confidence in a strong leader. A frail figure at 67, with a flowing white mane and a slight limp, he exudes a benign vagueness in conversation. It did not help his image on his first day as leader when he tripped on the steps of the House of Commons and broke his ankle...
Although Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences ran only a slight surplus-- $167,000--last year, the University as a whole ran a larger surplus and should "do well next year especially in comparison with other universities, including Yale," Ann S. Ramsay, director of the office of budgets at Harvard, said yesterday...