Word: stuffs
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...great. But then they gave him an umpiring job and all he was allowed to do was stand in the end zone and yell instructions to the other players, telling them when to pass or when to run or when to use a six-man zone defense--stuff like that...
...summer athletes also merit at least a modicum of recognition for years of anonymous toil. Deprived--some would say robbed--of a chance to strut their stuff on the world's stage, tributes are even more in order. Since the athletes have become pawns among the players of international politics--particularly ironic when you consider the government's total failure to support amateur sport--this summer's events may mark the death of what grains of incentive remain for American amateur athletes. Now that we have faced the fact that the Olympics will not be with us this summer...
...well and in some cases better. Though the equipment we are fielding is getting very complicated, we are building in a simple means of operating and repairing it. The new XM1 tank is a complicated piece of machinery. But to the soldier using it, all that complicated stuff is hidden. Instead, he's got panels with a couple of dials. If you train a gunner on an XM1 tank and compare the amount of hours that takes with gunner training on an M48 tank two generations ago, the difference dramatically favors...
Powers notes in retrospect that at the time "the news was carrying all that stuff about 18- per-cent inflation every day," adding that he may have committed a strategical error presenting the 10-9-8 before negotiations were slated to begin. "Sometimes if you offer nothing at first and then come back with something, you look incredibly generous," he says. When the Local 26 team forwarded its list of demands at the initial bargaining session April 9, Powers dismissed them as "unrealistic," withdrew his original 10-9-8 offer, and refused to present a counterproposal until the union drastically...
...issue was Vietnam. "We had the feeling that what the shah was doing was minor league stuff," Marshall explains. "Our lives were on the line with Vietnam." So intense was opposition to the war and the draft on campus that some seniors saw the Corporation's selection of the shah--a figure with no connections to Vietnam--as the administration's effort to "duck the issue." "To avoid problems." Glen A. Padnick '68 reasons, "the University picked the most neutral figure it could...