Word: laughlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Army quarterback Bryan Allem, who replaced starter Rich Laughlin early in the second quarter, had completed just 11 of 24 passes all season, the longest for only 24 yards. But the clock forced Allem to go for broke, and he unloaded the ball over the middle to split end Elton Akins, who had dropped a certain completion only a minutes earlier...
With such a large group of potential ball carriers. Sassaman seldom puts the ball up. Although he has earned the starting job. Sassaman is only a sophomore, and when the situation calls for successive passing plays. Army Coach Ed Cavanaugh usually sends in either junior Rich Laughlin or classmate Bryan Allem...
...steelmaking. Last week brought a chilling whiff of the protectionist sentiments that are easily aroused when steelmen start complaining of foreign competition. At issue were charges filed in January with the U.S. Commerce Department by a group of seven American steel producers, including U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Jones & Laughlin Steel. The companies charged that foreign producers, mostly from Western Europe, had chiseled their way into a 19% import share of the U.S. market by selling government subsidized steel to American buyers...
...such as iron ore and coking coal, steel firms also have to make sure that stocks of finished goods, ranging from rolled steel to ingots, sheet metal, cable and wire, are neither too large nor too small for projected demand. Says Albert E. Martz, a general manager for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh (1981 sales: $4.7 billion): "As a result of higher interest rates, we are trying to run leaner and operate closer to the bone. Now we maintain less inventory in order to accomplish the same thing...
...rightness of their cause, Iranian soldiers have proved to be a far more potent fighting force than Saddam Hussein expected. "When you believe in God, you win," said a young fighter pilot who, like many Iranians, had been trained in the U.S.; he still wore a breast patch from Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. The Iranians have also worked something of a miracle with the sophisticated American weaponry with which the Shah had built the most feared arsenal in the Persian Gulf. Despite a lack of spare parts, F-4 Phantoms can be seen refueling in midair...