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...team's strength last weekend was defense, as they held Charleston to 17 shots and North Carolina to 11, They'll look to produce an even stingier defense today...
Clearly there is no way to prevent human exposure to microbes. But the risks can be reduced. To minimize bacterial resistance, for example, doctors can be stingier with antibiotics. "We've been careless," says Dr. Robert Daum, a University of Chicago pediatrician. "Every childhood fever does not require antibiotics." Nor does a healthy farm animal...
...Publishers are becoming stingier. Some publishers are now exercising a 10 percent rule, which is if you want to use more than 10 percent of the book, you have to have the students buy the book," Owen says...
...course--is the defense, arguably the finest in the East. The defense is bolstered by returning starters Randy Taylor, Jerry Pawloski and Mark Benning, all of whom quietly established themselves last season as three of the league's steadiest performers. The Crimson blue line corps will be even stingier with the addition of 6-ft., 3-in., freshman Chris Biotti, a Belmont Hill 'standout who was the 17th player chosen in the NHL Draft...
...profits vanish and companies struggle, the venture-capital firms that helped fuel Silicon Valley's early growth have become stingier. Investment bankers who steer young companies toward the stock market are also cutting back. San Francisco's Hambrecht & Quist recently announced layoffs for 5% of its work force. After arranging initial public offerings for 66 companies, worth $2.2 billion in 1983, Hambrecht & Quist has managed only eight sales worth $96 million so far this year...