Word: tracks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will push 30 miles out into Whitefish and then back down through St. Marys River and the locks of Sault Ste. Marie, clearing the way for downbound ore carriers and for empty ships upbound from the steel mills at Gary, Ind. Each winter the 290-ft. Mac makes "track" not only through the solid heavy ice but through once broken ice refrozen in crazy-quilt patches the Coast Guardsmen call "brash." Moving through brash, says Hall, "is like trying to punch yourself through a room full of marshmallows." The Mac copes differently with ice 2 ft. thick. The old cutter...
...amount of money they spend, rather than take in, to an annual increase of no more than 9.7%, plus an adjustment that would take into account some inflation factors. (Studies show that hospital revenues and expenses climb and fall at similar rates but that expenditures are easier to track.) The failure of a hospital covered by the program to meet this goal would trigger a penalizing mechanism so convoluted that administrators claim it would be a bureaucratic nightmare-and they have a point. Basically, the formula would restrict the amount of money that a hospital could collect from patients...
There should be plenty of other non-locals at the fair, so visitors don't have to worry too much abou feeling out-of-place. Leprechaun Imports sells most of its stock of shot glasses decorated with maps of Ireland and kelly green track sneakers to tourists, and the lady behind the counter swore she had just gotten off the phone with an Irishman in Los Angeles who was interested in a South Boston warm-up suit...
...Geoff lives long enough to be a doctor and I live long enough to be sick, then I want him to treat me. Bill McCurdy, Harvard track coach...
...know this junior woman who lives over in Lowell House. The real jock type--you know, she's played varsity hoop, soccer and ran track. Yeah, she pretends to be an academic. You know, a Fine Arts major (though she says she's writing a thesis next year...