Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tandem, playing first doubles together for only the second time, were paired against Penn's number one and three seeds, Eric Riley and Dave Friedman. And after losing a tight tie-breaker set, 6-7, they were slowly, mercilessly handing the Quaker pair its first loss all season. In a match that lasted some two and a half hours. Sands played with his usual consistency. But it was Harvard's number-five seed. Yardling Scott, who was most impressive to watch...
...making the very best of a bad situation, it traded the 55 mile per hour speed limit for an increase in weight to 80,000 lbs., an increase in width to 102 inches, and an extension of the length limit to 65 feet--allowing truckers to operate the longer tandem trailers. It was a healthy exchange, but unfortunately for the industry, 14 states with lower limits exercised the option of maintaining the prior restrictions. The ATA has had its eye on this last vestige of barely intelligent highway management for several years, and despite grievous protestation, it was only...
...even gloomier side to this already somber picture concerns safety. It is an unfortunate fact that as weight increases so does the accident fatality rate; everyone from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to the American Automobile Association agrees that the records of the high weight tandem trailers are particularly discouraging A DOT study done in 1982 demonstrated a disturbing 12.2 fatalities per million miles for tandems, considerably higher than the 5.6 per million miles for single trucks, and dwarfing the 2.96 per million rate for passenger cars. Despite these statistics, the ATA, which vigorously defends the safety record...
...Caribbean democracies would be better equipped to face their woes if they could learn to pull in tandem. But unique forces seem to work against that possibility. After three centuries of slavery and colonialism, independence has inspired a heady and often heedless individualism. Says Journalist Ulric Mentus: "People cherish their freedom. They think of dancing in the streets, throwing out their leaders and not going to work if they don't feel like it as all part of the same democracy. They will not vote for any government they cannot tell to go to hell...
While the Harvard passing attack was flying high, the running game was barely chugging along For the day. Crimson ball carriers picked up just 31 yards on 40 cames, which translates into a paltry 08 yards per attempt The Harvard halfback tandem of Scott McCabe and Tim McGugan which churned for more than 180 yards last week against Columbia, was held to 11 yards on 17 carriers. The reason: The UMass defense geared itself almost entirely to stopping the Harvard ground game by having its linebackers charge and fill up the holes on nearly every play. "They sent...