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Although yesterday's semi-final washout against the inhospitable Elis left the Crimson (now 4-5 against Ivy competition and 12-13 overall) looking a bit out of breath, Harvard surprised almost everyone by topping the Bruins on Saturday and qualifying for today's third-place playoff...
...washout ahead...
...giant hamburger chains, dominated by McDonald's and its two smaller cook-alikes, Burger King and Wendy's. But lately, increasing costs and competition have taken some of the sizzle out of the chains. Says Wendy's Chairman R. David Thomas: "There's a big washout coming...
...probably should have been anticipated that the practitioners of such a vital art form would finally do what they did last week and proclaim several days before Jimmy Carter left for Germany that the Bonn economic summit was, in effect, over-and it was a washout. From the White House, which last week issued a new official portrait that it hoped would look more "presidential" than last year's photo, came willing explanations for the predestined disappointmen-Congress refused to support Carter, the American economy chose the wrong season to inflate, the New York Times-CBS thoughtlessly polled...
...likely to lose interest. Closed-door meetings don't allow Congressmen to make speeches or issue press releases or titillate their constituents with inside stories." So argues Democratic Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin. His cynical point is that a congressional committee to oversee CIA operations would be a washout in five years because its members would lose their enthusiasm as soon as the CIA was no longer a big story...