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What accounts for his amazing metamorphosis from also-ran to world-beater? Powell, 28, gives credit to a five-year scientific training plan devised by his coach, Randy Huntington, who goes by the nickname "Mr. Gizmo" and leaves almost no technique untried in his exhaustive approach to training. Among the elements of Powell's regime...
...temporary investment tax credit, the same kind of thing. Japan has half as many people as we do, and they have greater capital investment, and now they have surpassed us in research and development. The long-term result of that is inevitable. They are the superpower. We are the also-ran...
...either a New Hampshire write-in campaign or efforts to start a national draft movement. Then there is serious talk about Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the 1988 vice- presidential nominee -- who has passed word that he would accept a draft -- and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, like Gephardt a 1988 also-ran, plus more wistful speculation about Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell -- almost everybody, it sometimes seems, who has ever said a regretful...
Most investors know that 1991 was a good year on Wall Street. Not so many know that, compared with a lot of other equity markets, Wall Street was an also-ran. Despite the headlines about New York's all-time record highs in January, the same is proving to be true so far this year...
...secret of the success of the Nike corporation, which began to make its famous footwear in 1971 and grew from an unknown also-ran in the shoe business to the universally familiar $3 billion institution of today, is that it understood that sneakers embodied the values of the people who wore them. / Americans wanted a well-made, high-tech athletic shoe not because it was a necessity but because the consciousness of the country had changed. "Jogging," "getting in shape," "working out" were part of the new life-style (another '70s concept), and Nike gave customers a stylish shoe...