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...years ago, Bill Nicolai, 36, an avid backpacker, relied on food stamps to eat. After his tent was destroyed in a snowstorm in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, he designed a tougher tent to replace it and began offering it through the mail. Last year Early Winters, the hiking-equipment catalogue business Nicolai founded, had sales of $7.2 million, and he expects them to reach $10 million this year...
...against tougher league opponents, McLaughlin has conceded that he will need all of his starters in top form to live up to some experts' predictions that the Crimson will sneak away with its first Ivy title...
...antimissile protest and so, in a more muted fashion, has the Roman Catholic Church. Protests sponsored by churches have played a major role in arousing public opinion. Earlier this month, the Evangelical Synod, which is the governing body of the Lutheran Church, approved a "peace memorandum" that was tougher on the U.S. than on the Soviet Union...
...hope we can just win the right games, that's all," says B.C. coach Len Ceglarski. "I think the competition will be a little tougher this year...
Indeed, if the Crimson had faced a lesser team in the opening round rather than having a bye, the squad might have found its rhythm before meeting the tournament's tougher teams and could have finished in the top four...