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...only disruption to this pattern occured midway through the half, when Joseph sank to the floor with a sprained ankle and had to be helped off the court. She returned to action four minutes later...
Harvard remained close, cutting the deficit to one with less than two minutes remaining when Sharon Hayes (high scorer with 15) sank a bomb from...
...country's Conservative Party and nearly six years since she assumed the post ! of Prime Minister, Thatcher faces a daunting array of problems. Britain's unemployment rate of 13.9% is the country's highest since the Depression. The pound, worth $1.44 a year ago (and $2 in 1981), sank to $1.07 last week. A miners' strike, which has cost the country an estimated $3.8 billion and divided the nation, will go into its second year in March; a carefully crafted settlement fell apart while Thatcher...
...heart of his fortune were the energy finds and lucrative investments that had been made by Mesa, which Pickens formed in 1964. Some properties acquired by Mesa rose staggeringly in value. In 1959, for example, Pickens scraped together $35,000 to invest in drilling sites in Canada. Mesa sank the income from those sites into new wells and in 1979 sold its Canadian operations to Dome Petroleum for $600 million...
...other movie roles, plus extensive work in the theater and television, Handl found the time to write a novel. The Sioux was first published in 1965 and elicited glowing responses from the likes of Noel Coward and Daphne du Maurier. After initial flurries of praise, though, the book sank out of print. Now publishers on both sides of the Atlantic have decided to give it another chance...