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...rest of the ground rules were standard: each player would begin with a given number of points, shoot at a fiber board marked off in 20 pie-shaped sections with a score value of from 1 to 20, then subtract the points he scored in each three-dart round; each game had to be won on a double (zinging a dart into the tiny outer double ring) worth the exact number of points remaining. First to reach zero would...
...after an electronic eye scans them, the machine gives forth a credit-card-sized ticket. Thereafter, the passenger merely enters whatever station he likes and sticks his ticket into automatic fare collectors that swiftly calculate fares (from 30? to $ 1.25, depending on the length of the journey) and electronically subtract the right amount from the ticket...
...badly. A lot of the work shown here, from Seymour Rosofsky's clumsy paintings to more overtly "aesthetic" objects like Don Baum's lumpen-surrealist assemblages of dolls' limbs or Cosmo Campoli's inert tributes to Brancusi, is a wretched thesaurus of cliches. But subtract them and a deposit of vitality remains...
...awarded an automatic 200 points for reading the Sports Page. Score 37.5 points for every correct answer. Subtract 2 points for every wrong answer. But don't worry: you can't fall below...
...demand, British Defense Minister Lord Carrington laconically noted that Britain had paid its rent through March, and that it would be glad to pull out after then "unless Mr. Mintoff changes his mind." Mintoff had reason for second thoughts, in view of the fact that a British withdrawal would subtract something like $58 million a year from Malta's fragile economy. At week's end he extended the deadline for two weeks to "alleviate suffering of poor women and children among British dependents...