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...expected. But among those who came to this circus of 30-odd summer sports and three winter skating events, the mood seemed light and untroubled. For athletes the meet was important but not career-breaking. For spectators both the nationalistic baying and the oppressive security of the Olympics were absent. A visitor could park and buy a ticket at the door to almost any competition site and as often as not chat with an athlete waiting to play in the next match...
King Hassan went on to proclaim that "through their feelings and minds, those absent are with us all the same." But the truth was that the deep splits between radical and moderate states that have virtually paralyzed the Arab League for years were as evident as ever. Said Moroccan Foreign Minister Abdellatif Filali: "Maybe this is the end of the Arab League...
...member League of Arab States, the monarch deplored "the existence of vacant seats" at the first such gathering in three years. The brocaded chairs intended for Syria, Lebanon, South Yemen, Algeria and Libya were empty. Of the remainder, only eight were filled by heads of state. Most notably absent was Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, who was represented by Crown Prince Abdullah...
...frequent mood of misery was absent last week, and so it may not be a complete coincidence that baseball's strike was short-lived. Over an amazing prestrike weekend, baseball's Rod Carew, Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden, football's Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson and Roger Staubach, a runner named Steve Cram, a tennis player named Boris Becker and an amateur golfer named Scott Verplank had got in the first word, not for the players or the owners but for the games: excellence. On dark occasions in sports, the President and both houses of Congress can vouch for this inessential...
...employees doing stupid things like not seeing a doctor just to get a TV or microwave oven." But, he adds, there is no evidence that this has happened. The incentive chase may also induce some stress of its own. At Scherer, a worker who has not been late or absent for ten years wins a fortnight for two in Florida. One employee now in his sixth year of perfect service, says Scherer, "tells me that about twice a year he jumps out of bed in a panic in the middle of the night afraid he has missed his alarm clock...