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...superior in manpower and artillery, Rommel predicted that it would take him 15 minutes to crush the 3,700 men stationed there. Instead, combat raged for a bloody 15 days, the Legion holding out despite waning supplies and unbearable heat. As defeat seemed imminent, Koenig ordered a risky nighttime breakout through enemy lines. The book reaches its hair-raising climax with Travers at the wheel, Koenig at her side, speeding over dunes between firing tanks, and ultimately leading 2,400 men to safety...
Surprise! The danger turned out to be the reverse: the economy didn't suffer from a sharp breakout in inflation. Instead the hike in energy prices led to deflation. The oil shock was the equivalent of a $100 billion tax increase on consumers and businesses. Result: the erosion in purchasing power forced CEOs as well as ordinary consumers to cut back on spending. Since such general expenditures make up more than 80% of all economic activity, the economy took a beating in the second half of the year and grew at a less than 2% annual rate, compared with...
...Disco didn't really cross over until '77, when the BeeGees made it safe for the multititudes with the breakout tracks on "Saturday Night Fever". But by '76, here's what they were asking for in the dance clubs: Vickie Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around"; Silver Convention's "Get Up and Boogie"; Donna Summer's "Love Trilogy" (an LP, and every cut was getting played); The Trammps' "That's Where the Happy People Go"; and the fabulous Andrea True's "More More More" (a tune that will never be removed from my desert-island jukebox...
...addition to the fine performance from its starters, Harvard capitalized on some breakout performances at the plate from a laundry list of hitters. In particular, juniors Mark Mager, Faiz Shakir and Brian Lentz each boasted at least two multi-hit games, and scored 10 of Harvard's 30 runs over the four games...
...confidence or maybe it was a challenge. Either way, Harvard's junior third baseman has responded in a big way. After advertising all the tools of a premier slugger in his first two seasons, Carter has put everything together in his junior year and is enjoying quite the breakout season...