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...Dean is the only person I have heard who can surpass my teen-agers with excuses about why it wasn't their fault and why they shouldn't be blamed and how they really didn't mean to be there, and after all I had said "Good evening" to them when they came home, so I must have known what was going on and agreed...
...Paris-born team of forecasters fielded by Futurist Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute caused a sensation in Europe last spring when it predicted that the French gross national product would surpass West Germany's in the 1980s. Now a Swiss research firm, Prognos, A.G., has come to a contrary conclusion: though West Germany is headed for some severe strains, it is likely to remain dominant in Western Europe for at least 20 years...
Before the North Virginia game ended, Graff broke the Harvard records for career scoring and time kicked out for infractions. He notched goal number 253 to surpass the previous record of 249 goals scored by Tom McGill '70. Among the Crimson's most aggressive defensemen, Graff earned 178 minutes of penalties in his college waterpolo career. The previous mark was 174 minutes was held by Steve Rennard...
...negotiating with officials of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on yet another price increase that would compensate the exporters for the devaluation of the dollar in February. The price of interstate natural-gas shipments, which is regulated by the Federal Power Commission, has never been allowed to surpass 34? per 1,000 cu. ft. But if Congress votes to deregulate natural-gas prices in new contracts, as Nixon proposed, the economists expect prices eventually to rise much closer to their current free-market level in intrastate shipments. Recently, that has been as high...
...just where in the recruiting process does the job of the student end and that of the Admissions office begin? The statement that the decline in black applications can be attributed to "less recruiting of perspective applicants by Harvard blacks" seems to me to imply that black undergraduates must surpass the norm insofar as recruiting obligations are concerned...