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...then apply them to specific cases. Carnegie-Mellon and M.I.T. are strong in statistics and math; their students could "crunch the numbers." Wharton is reputed to produce hard-nosed decision makers-bottom-line types. Cornell, which uses a combination of the case-study and theory methods, was clearly the underdog. Said Team Member Dick Tushingham: "If we are simply perceived as having achieved parity with the other schools, we will have done something for Cornell." The results were to be judged by five business experts. They were also judged unofficially by 30 or so corporate recruiters on the lookout...
Chile, with 79,600 men under arms (v. 63,000 for the Peruvians), would be the underdog in any set-to with its northern neighbor, partly because it has found modern weapons almost impossible to buy. Reason: the U.S. and Britain have imposed tight embargoes on sales of arms to General Augusto Pinochet's regime because of its callous record on human rights. Although Chile has begun receiving about 50 American F-5E and A-37 warplanes, ordered before the embargo, they may not be a match for Peru's Russian-made Su-22s, especially if Soviet training...
Dupuis said Wood will face a major difference next year since the team will not go into games as the underdog. "Other teams only started to fear" this year's team late in the season, she said...
...Gerald Ford could not quite bring it off. But he came achingly close to duplicating the upset victory of the fighting underdog he so much admired, Harry Truman, and he cannot be faulted for not trying. From the beginning, it was a long shot-an accidental President swept into office on a wave of scandal, stuck with the worst recession since World War II, confronted with a charismatic opponent in a bitter primary fight and then with an all-things-to-all-people Democrat in the general election...
...squad was the underdog last Saturday against Cornell when junior signalcaller Kevin Burns unleashed two scoring strikes, including a fourth down hook-up with co-captain Dave McAvoy. Paul McCormack, replacing leading groudgainer Bruce "magic" Stephens who is doubtful for today with a sprained ankle, rambled for 130 yards in 15 carries as the Lions racked up 35 points...