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...they have to practice, Blodgett Pool is the place to do it. "We have as good a springboard facilities as anywhere in the country," Walker says, adding that the pool's flaw is the absence of a ten-meter platform--a flaw that can hurt recruiting...
...doesn't carry a company like the RSC (providing only three million pounds in a ten to 12 million pound operation), but it helps it o be more solvent and to reach more people with more projects: "In short, here is a classic case of state support being the springboard for private enterprise, which returns its goods directly into the public domain and in the process trains and employs a variety of highly skilled people whose work can and does fertilise other allied enterprises all about the place...
...years of Viet Nam were beginning to fire up domestic inflation. In 1957, 13,739 firms went bust. In 1967, near the zenith of the go-go years, 12,364 companies went under. The highest number of failures registered during the entire period, 17,075, came in 1961, the springboard year of the boom. By comparison, business failures in 1981 now seem set to rise no higher than 17,000 or so for the year as a whole...
Using the controversial preliminary report on Harvard admissions commissioned by President Bok as a springboard, more than 200 students rallied in the Yard Tuesday, unexpectedly marching through University Hall and gathering in front of Massachusetts Hall, where they heard protest leaders threaten to occupy the building unless Bok agrees soon to a set of eight demands...
...Three weeks ago it dawned on me that I might be able to run in a meet--though not necessarily well. I felt responsible to the team as captain and I thought that if I were to run, it would be a springboard for motivation...