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Federal Reserve Board Chairman William Miller frets that the load is too heavy. So does his predecessor, Arthur Burns. Says he: "Consumers are going into debt at a reckless rate. They are counting on good luck. Let there be some weakness in the economy, and they'll be in trouble...
Gooseeggs--the major problem in an eggshell, was that the Crimson did not score. In particular, Lee Nelson, with 13 goals the previous year, and Walter Diaz, who had scored six in 1977, had been expected to carry the scoring load. Instead, Nelson ended up with no goals, and Diaz tallied only five to lead the team...
...limits were imposed. Players point proudly to the absence of a jock aristocracy on the 27,000-student Penn State campus. There is no lush special housing for players; they live in regular dormitories, and curfews are virtually unknown. No player is allowed to lighten his academic load during the season, and some 94% of Penn State's footballers graduate on schedule after four years. Proclaims Paterno: "Football isn't everything. It's just another extracurricular activity, like science club or the band...
With the advent of the SAT, Kaplan found his work load too much to handle individually. Word-of-mouth advertising about the feisty tutor had spread to Queens and manhattan. He opened a permanent center in Brooklyn to handle the load, and rented places in the other boroughs in which to teach. His metropolitan area business continued to snowball as he became better known and the standardized tests more important...
Baldrige's life is hectic, with twelve or more appointments each day added to a load of domestic details...