Word: spurted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years: a marked rise in the bloodstream of an enzyme-acid phosphatase-produced by the prostate gland. As the disease progresses, the level continues to rise. The challenge has been to develop tests sensitive and reliable enough to detect the increase before the cancer spreads. Now. in a sudden spurt of research activity at several medical centers, at least two promising new techniques are being tested...
...cent shooting average and Harvard's less than-comparable 29-per-cent average made it impossible for the Crimson to slice far into the Springfield lead in the second half. After Harvard came back to within seven at 37-44, Springfield decided the issue with a 12-4 spurt keyed by two Regan baskets and two buckets from center Barb Breedlove, who finished with 10 points...
...spurt came in the first nine minutes of the third quarter, when the Pistons outscored the Celts 21-4 to go ahead 63-53. Cowens picked up his fourth personal foul early in the quarter and had to play cautiously for the remainder of the contest. The usually potent scoring threat had but five points on the night...
Winter's Cold. "The worst is over," says United California Bank Economist Raymond Jallow in Los Angeles. Jallow and other economists believe that the price spurt in the past months was due mainly to the economic effects of last winter's cold weather. Moreover, Townsend-Greenspan & Co., the New York consulting firm headed by Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and formerly Gerald Ford's chief economic adviser, notes that "the chances of a significant acceleration in inflation rates as the economy moves into 1978 appear to be diminishing...
After leading the women throughout the first half, freshmen Caryn Curry and Ellen Hart sparked the Crimson to blow the second half wide open. The Harvard women outscored the Jumbos, 43-13, at one point running off a 16 point spurt...