Word: turn
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Dover initiated the explosion with a pair of foul shots, and then converted a fast break pass from Gustafson. Janszewski, a pleasant surprise for the fans with a soft jumper and accurate hook shots, followed with a turn-around 15-footer. Gustafson finished it off with a free throw, and the outcome was assured...
Harvard should not, however, be giving the military the inordinate favors that the ROTC program now receives. The University should not give the officers assigned here by the Defense Department the dignity of being called professors, and the University should not give academic credit for courses designed only to turn out competent platoon leaders. But at the same time, Harvard does not have the moral prescience to dictate which organizations can and cannot be admitted to its precincts...
...first place. Protective knee braces are available, but they dramatically restrict a player's mobility. Replacing stadium turf with artificial grass in which cleats are less likely to catch also promises help. So do shorter cleats. Some doctors insist that the knees of all youngsters who turn out for football in high school should be examined so that the weak and injury-prone can be weeded out. But the prescription of choice is one the patient is not likely to take. The only reliable way to avoid knee injuries, say the doctors, is to avoid the game...
...buyer knows, things rarely turn out that way. Last week, confirmation of that fact came from the Federal Trade Commission, which concluded in a 205-page report: "Service retains the status of a 'necessary evil' in much of the automobile business." The report, which will lead to full-scale hearings on warranties in January, makes clear that as sales continue to rise service can only become more necessary-and more evil...
...chosen to move up to the chairmanship of British Petroleum Co. last month, Deputy Chairman Eric Drake noted that he had already had "a pretty good bash at about every end of the business." Last week Drake was in the midst of a brand-new bash-one that could turn out to be very good indeed. In a lightning move that belied B.P.'s sure-but-slow reputation, Drake set plans to buy B.P.'s way into the American market at a cost of $300 million-one of the biggest single invasions of the U.S. by British capital...