Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Poor Omega. Once the pride of the Brookfield (Ill.) Zoo, he is now an outcast. Rejected by two female companions, the hefty 450-lb. gorilla sits alone in his cage, forlornly munching on alfalfa or taking a lackadaisical swing on the rubber tire hanging from his ceiling. Omega's problem is that he is sterile...
...both squads began to tire, the buckets passed back and forth regularly amidst erratic passing, fast breaks, and numerous Holy Cross personal fouls. Harvard sent in a whole new line, and the appearance of Pat Horne, Janet Judge, Rose Guarino and Kate Martin brought fresh energy to the weary hoopsters...
...transportation industries makes it sensitive to economic downturns. In Detroit, unemployment pushes into the upper ten percentages as the Big Three lay off workers and register record level quarter losses. The Youngstown-Akron area of Ohio has lost tens of thousands of jobs with steel and Firestone tire plant closings and related business lost. In the same area and other states, outdated steel plants have shut down rather than modernize because the Big Three own enough steel rusting on four wheels in huge factory parking lots. As the old Detroit saying laments, "When the economy catches cold, Detroit catches pneumonia...
...pursues tomorrow's happiness with a blissful disinterest about next week's. Yet Goldman makes sure that the audience does not confuse Melvin's simplicity with simple-mindedness. Living in a world of milk trucks with plastic cows, game shows with applause signs and gas stations with undulating tire displays, Melvin merely serves as the prism through which we view these and other tragi-comic forces...
...Albert Sutherland, the owner of a tire store on Binneyst., said his business "had paid taxes in this city for years...