Word: threw
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However, Harvard was nearly swept in the field events. The Crimson had only one first-place finish, as freshman William Doyle threw the 35-lb. weight 56-ft., 9-in. to lead the pack...
...Newark ruled for the first time that a cigarette manufacturer could be held liable for the death of a smoker. The court awarded $400,000 to the widowed husband of Rose Cipollone, who died of cancer in 1984 at 58. But last week a federal appeals court in Philadelphia threw out the landmark verdict, ruling that the lower court erred by excluding certain lines of questioning that might have favored the tobacco company...
Dazzling as they are, those statistics cannot begin to convey the uncanny grace with which Montana has led his team to half a dozen come-from-behind victories this season. Against Philadelphia on Sept. 24, for example, he threw four touchdown passes in the fourth quarter to turn a 21-10 half-time deficit into a 38-28 win. He put in an even more dramatic performance against Los Angeles on Dec. 11. With the 49ers trailing the Rams 27-10 and only a shade over ten minutes left to play, Montana first threw a touchdown pass to Mike Wilson...
...days later, a 37-member provisional government threw out some of the most odious of Ceausescu's laws. It abolished the Securitate and canceled the so-called systematization in the countryside, under which thousands of villages were to be destroyed in the name of progress and peasants forced to move into high-rise apartment complexes. It legalized abortion, which had been prohibited by Ceausescu in an effort to increase the labor force in a country that now has a population of 23 million. It ended food rationing, provided enough power to allow citizens to turn up the heat in their...
...measure proved to be only a partial solution. Last July a bribery scandal rocked the U.S. industry when three FDA reviewers pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from generic-drug companies. The revelations threw doubt on the efficacy of some generics. Meantime, drug prices continued their upward spiral -- primarily because of the fundamental forces that drive the modern pharmaceutical industry...