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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...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: 'Cliffe Hoopsters Cut Jumbos to Size, 85-36 | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

...October-March season, v. $200 last year, and the total national home-heating bill could rise to $ 19 billion by the time March goes -or does not go-out like a lamb. In January, consumer prices generally surged 10% on an annual basis, the sharpest spurt in 18 months; some fuel prices rose even more (see chart). Those figures were collected before the worst of the cold weather and do not reflect the full inflation in heating bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: After the Chill Comes the Bitter Bill | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Princeton continued its spurt after the second-half tipoff, racing to 39-25 and 47-29 leads behind the shooting of Sowinski and guard Rich Rizzuto...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Tigers Slip by Crimson Cagers, 59-49 | 2/22/1977 | See Source »

...course, newspapers have long been moneymakers. In the early 1970s, however, a dramatic spurt in the price of newsprint hobbled the entire industry. Much of the present recovery is due to newspaper management's new reliance on marketing studies to help give readers what they want, rather than what editors think they should have. In most cases, that rather unjournalistic practice means less national and world news and more leisure-time features, consumer reporting and life-style coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Printing Money | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...Duke of Argyll's Inveraray Castle (cost: $50,000 a pair in Yankee green). Or, for $37,500 each, they can spend two weeks aboard a schooner retracing Darwin's voyage of the Beagle. Sakowitz, while reporting more "interest" than sales, was hoping for a last-minute spurt in exotica purchases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Yule Log: Happy His & Hers | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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