Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier in the afternoon a half yard quarterback sneak by Jim Whitehead in the opening minute of the first quarter lifted Mather to its 7-0 victory over still winless Lowell. Bert Rankin's interception and some clutch running by halfback Mark Rosen set up Whitehead's scoring plunge...
AVALANCHE EXPRESS Directed by Mark Robson Screenplay by Abraham Polonsky...
Freshman star Darlene Beckford led the Harvard women's cross country team to a respectable eighth-place finish in yesterday's Eastern Division 1 Championship at Westchester, Pa. The perenially powerful pacers from Penn State topped the field with an untouchable mark of 36 points...
Next to each of the names on the ballot is a blank box, in which voters must pencil a ranking. ("Do Not Use X Marks," the ballot warns.) Instead, pick your favorite candidate and mark him down as number one. The second-best person for the job should get your number two, and so on, all the way up until 23. Many people give up after eight or nine names because votes are unlikely to be meaningful after that point. "People do all kinds of crazy things--they mark X's, they cross out names, they write slogans...
...figure, then the candidate with the lowest number of ballots is declared defeated and his ballots are redistributed, again to the second choice candidates. This process of eliminating the lowest candidate and redistributing his ballots is repeated until all positions are filled with candidates who have reached the quota mark or until eliminating another candidate would leave a vacancy on the nine-member council...