Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a quick game of catch between pointmen John Cochrane and Jack Hughes, Cochrane shoved the puck down the right board for George Hughes, who fed it into Barney for a stuff shot at the right post...
Another favorite story concerns the administration of the LSAT. He explains that he is no stranger to such exams--"It is well-known that I like to imbibe in that kind of stuff"--and he tells of the student who had taken the test so often that "he even got to bring Mr. Test his Cokes...
...more bureaucratic. Too much superfluous paper is circulated. Analysts are more conscious of job and status, and less daring and imaginative than they were in the '50s and '60s. Says an Administration official: "There's a lot of bureaucratic ass-covering that goes on when guys write long-range stuff. They don't want to be wrong, so they tend to be glib and platitudinous...
...sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida, a Sauk Centre farmer, became a local hero by picking a particularly windy day to spread manure: the stuff was blown all over a survey crew and its truck. Unamused, the power companies have filed an excessive $500,000 suit for real and punitive damages against the farmer...
Marshall Goldman, deputy director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, notes that the U.S.S.R. has been increasing production by 6% a year. "It won't take them that long to bring new stuff on line," he predicts. One major U.S. oil company forecasts that Russian output will rise, though at declining rates, into the late 1980s and perhaps even longer...