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...This league is so emotional because we play consecutive games on the weekend," said McLaughlin. "Look what happened. We won down at Princeton, then came back and beat Penn the next night. Here we lost a heartbreaker Friday and you saw what happened tonight. The weekend took its toll. The players went into it with such an emotional high...
...banks have historically been "quite profitable, so fortunately they have a certain financial cushion of liquidity and capital to draw on." Still, 25 of the 79 U.S. banks that failed last year had at least 25% of their loans out to farmers. Volcker admitted that the farm-bank failure toll will be higher this year. Some 325 institutions on the FDIC's list of 889 problem banks are agricultural lenders...
Harvard continued to battle hard, but the team's lack of experience took its toll. The Crimson forgot its set play at one crucial juncture while Brown along tenaciously to its lead...
...polio virus had somehow remained latent in PPMA victims, only to be reactivated. But unlike polio, PPMA is never fatal, and it progresses far more slowly than the original disease. That would seem to rule out the polio virus as the culprit. A more likely cause may be the toll taken on healthy nerve cells by years of overcompensating for those destroyed by the disease. Many polio survivors, says Perry, "are functioning at 50% of their muscle strength most of the time, whereas healthy people stay under 20%." For this reason, the nerve cells of post-polio patients are subjected...
...long layoff took its toll, but a strong third period was enough to boost Harvard (now 6-5) over...