Word: finalize
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...granddaddy of rowing competitions, the Henley regatta on the Thames River in England, the Eliot House crew took part and didn't win the Challenge Cup.Instead, the U.S. Olympic shell--coached by Harry Parker, who else?--triumphed over the New Zealand Olympic squad in the final. In the lightweight division, Harvard's Eastern sprints champion boat fell in the semifinals to Witwatersrand of South Africa...
When he tells this anecdote, Fuller loves to emphasize that the Israelis are survivors. This same heavy-handed irony slips into The Big Red One only in the final scene, when Fuller cannot restrain his narrator (Fuller himself, since the film is largely autobiographical) from underlining the message about survival. Fuller's credo is a realistic twist of the cliche of sportsmanlike competition: it's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you live...
...cares? Mostly the civic leaders of Carl Sandburg's city of the big shoulders, who took the news rather badly. If the figures stay the same when the final census count lands on President Carter's desk by the deadline of Jan. 1, Chicago stands to lose one seat in Congress, several seats in the state legislature and up to $75 million in federal revenue sharing. More important, Chicago's civic pride would take a licking. Ever since A.J. Liebling, writing about Chicago in The New Yorker in 1952, coined the putdown Second City, Chicagoans have been...
...Sandinistas' decision to postpone elections will not make it any easier for the Carter Administration to give final approval to a $75 million loan to Nicaragua. Before signing the loan bill, President Carter is obliged to certify to the U.S. Congress that Nicaragua is not violating any of the democratic provisions specified by the bill. The chances are that Carter will put off signing the bill until after the November elections. To sign it now might give the Republicans a campaign issue that the President scarcely needs...
...Elvis: The Final Years, Hopkins 1. How You Can Become