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...Crimson dominated the game, easily controlling the ball at midfield and the Providence end. At times the team looked like it was practicing stall tactics, passing the ball back and forth away from the Lady Friars...
...million workplaces. Indeed, Labor Department statistics suggest that workplace safety has improved substantially since OSHA was created in 1970. The rate of job-related illnesses and injuries declined from 11 per 100 full- time workers in 1973 to 7.6 per 100 in 1983. But then progress seemed to stall. The rate was back up to 7.9 per 100 full-time workers...
...plane onto runway 3-Center North. The plane, loaded with a full 39,128 lbs. of jet fuel and 6,000 lbs. of baggage, hurtled farther than normal down the runway and rose less than 50 feet before plunging. In the cockpit, a computer- generated voice repeated the words "stall . . . stall," indicating that the airflow over the wings was no longer sufficient to lift the plane; the jet was falling, not flying. Traveling at about 215 m.p.h., the plane knocked a jagged piece off the roof of a rental-car building and then ricocheted off the embankment of an access...
...group wants to choose a nonconfrontational conservative who would arouse less than die-hard opposition from liberals in the Democratic- controlled Senate. "Even if we make a quality selection, it could well be a tough go," says a Baker aide. Liberal Senators, however, are in a weaker position to stall Reagan's choice than they would have been if Powell had delayed his resignation: the 19 months until Reagan's successor is sworn in would be a long time for the court to operate with only eight Justices...
Escalating interest rates could easily stall the economic expansion, and there are signs that more hikes are on the horizon. Last week several leading banks boosted their benchmark prime lending rates to corporate customers from 8% to 8.25%, the second time in two weeks that the key rate has risen. The housing industry is particularly vulnerable to high interest rates because home sales depend on available and affordable mortgages. But no sector of the economy will remain unscathed if rates keep rising...