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...Harvard's hoopsters, as they open their home season against invading quintets from City College of New York and Fordham. For fifteen years college basketball in New York City has consisted of minnows in the NCAA ocean, but this weekend the Crimson cagers may get more than they can swallow of a new dish: the resurgence of college hoop in the Big Town...
...loss was a tough one for the Crimson to swallow, especially in light of the events of the third period, when goals by defenseman Jim Trainor and center George Hughes erased B.U.'s two goal edge...
...Vegas, the house has a basic advantage of 5.9%, though this can vary depending on the skill of a player. The best casino odds are in craps, where the house is only 1.4% better off than the player. Slot machines vary, keeping 3% to 22% of the coins they swallow...
...will have an unusual "two-tier" pricing system, with some mills charging a higher and others a lower price. If U.S. Steel decides to hold the line, the increase undoubtedly will collapse again. But if the giant raises prices, it could present Carter with an awkward dilemma: whether to swallow the increase, thus diminishing the credibility of any guidelines he may announce, or start his Administration with a fight against the steelmakers...
...23rd Psalm, for example, "I shall not want" becomes "I have everything I need." Traditionalists may find that in the process some of the poetry of the standard versions has been clarified out of existence. Often the results are blunt indeed: "Gossip is so tasty! How we love to swallow it!" (Proverbs 26: 22); or "You bastard!" (in I Samuel...