Word: expendable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are two things to remember about the new proposals. The first is the portion requiring universities "to expend equal average per capita amouts of money for male and female participants." Confused? So was I. And when I asked Joe Mathis, spokesman in HEW's Office of Civil Rights, to tell me what was going on, he told me it means "proportionately equal average per capita spending." In English, that means that if Harvard spends $300,000 for its athletic program involving 300 men, it must also spend $150,000 for an athletic program involving 150 women...
...bogus $250,000 "winner-take-all" match between Connors and Ilie Nastase (in which Connors actually was guaranteed $500,000 and Nastase received $150,000). Far more serious are charges of players' defaulting and "tanking," or purposely losing matches. Occasionally, players who lose early in singles expend less than full effort on their doubles matches with the aim of squeezing in a few days of rest or practice on a faltering serve...
Much of the public continues to behave as if there were a constitutional mandate to expend energy; the nation will burn nearly 4% more oil this year than in 1977. But this trend is being countered in a notable way by some corporate consumers, who are discovering that saving fuel is just about the simplest way to cut costs and boost profits...
...preliminary heat the Crimson held Washington off until the 1800-meter mark before letting them slip by, taking second rather than expend energy needed for the afternoon...
...shop markets some 170 games, the latest of which is a Tolkien imagining called War of the Ring. For $20 the Hobbit fancier gets three large maps of Middle Earth, and a densely printed 28-page rulebook with instructions like "To attempt Citadel Reduction, the Dark Power Player must expend one Shadow Point for each Nazgul present...