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...Mateo, Calif. After the race they realized that his good eye had been covered over with mud. He had run blind. The track was fast last Saturday, but Cassaleria ran 13th. He never seemed to be leading with the correct foot. "Cassaleria didn't seem to get ahold of the track," said Jockey Darrel McHargue...
Though not a pure shooter. Koziara gets ahold of the ball often enough to take between 15 and 20 shots in most games. She has averaged more than 20 points in each of her four seasons, a remarkable statistic at the college level...
...Studly were in their room, not eager for Lippert's company. Lippert knocked on the door and was told politely not to come in. He pushed against the door trying to force his way in but it wouldn't budge. And so always resourceful he leapt up grabbed ahold of a pipe running above the door swung his feet back and kicked the door in--a feat for which he was later fined...
Both the general public and big Institutional Investors have been active in the market, but large pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds have been major buyers of the bigger issues. It is harder for the small investor to get ahold of the most exciting stocks because brokers usually give the first shot to their larger clients who will buy 5,000 to 10,000 shares at a time. Federal regulations in 1979 encouraged pension funds to invest part of their huge assets in riskier ventures like new issues, antiques and diamonds; and institutions have soaked up about...
...future," says Robin Schmidt, vice-president for government and community affairs. Schmidt grouses: "if it gets into the political process six weeks before a local election," he says, it could impair rational consideration of the issues. City Hall observers fear that if City Council candidates get ahold of this, "all hell will break loose...