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Brian Garrity drilled a sharp grounder towards the hole between first and second, but before the ball could reach the outstretched glove of a diving Byrne, it hit the foot of UMass’s Bryan Adamski...
...their legs, then put in small, dark cells. The Sandinistas' harsh questions reportedly delved into the detainees' private lives and the internal workings of the U.S. embassy. All were accused of being CIA plants and of being "counterrevolutionaries" because they worked for the U.S. Washington responded by lodging a sharp diplomatic protest. The Sandinistas promptly issued a statement declaring that the interrogations were "strictly internal" and therefore "outside the sphere of diplomatic relations...
American's splashy offer jolted most of its rivals like a sharp downdraft. Within three hours, United responded with similar fares. Then came a squadron of others, including Delta, Eastern, Northwest, Republic, Pan Am, TWA and Piedmont. Consumers dived for their telephones when they heard the news. During one 29-hr. period Tuesday and Wednesday, American received 430,000 calls, 80% more than normal. Said United Vice President Charles Novak: "The response has been tremendous...
...Wall Street trader could make a killing if he got advance notice of the Commerce Department's quarterly estimate of the country's economic growth. On the day it is released, that statistic can send the financial markets into a sharp upward or downward spurt. Thus Government officials became alarmed last July and then again in September when an accurate GNP estimate was circulating among traders the day before its official release. In an effort to find the source of the leak, the Commerce Department has called in the FBI, which last week was giving voluntary lie-detector tests...
That’s exactly what Harvard couldn’t do last year, when a four-game swing through New Haven yielded only a single victory. With Trey Hendricks ’04 out with back spasms and the Bulldog staff sharp, the Crimson couldn’t find...