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...more solemn Contact, based on the Carl Sagan novel and said to be, in the words of its director Bob Zemeckis, the rare alien movie "rooted in true scientific believability." "We've done more for them than they do for us," says Price of Hollywood. A handsome, weather-beaten man with surprisingly still, pale blue eyes, he has no apparent enmity toward Hollywood, even though he once got what sounds like the brush-off when he tried to persuade his second cousin, the late producer Don Simpson, to make a movie based on Roswell...
...benefits of deregulation. He started as a pilot with Kimberly-Clark Corp. in 1969, back when the government assigned routes and set profit margins, assuring existing carriers a captive market and barring new entrants. It was partly because Kimberly-Clark's headquarters, then in Neenah, Wis., was off the beaten path that the company started its private fleet. "Air travel was difficult and expensive. We were frustrated," Hoeksema says. The paper company named its unit Midwest Express Airlines and began offering service to the public--specifically the well-heeled business public--in 1984, the year the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...Crimson had only beaten the Bears twice in the team's 16 years as a varsity sport. In addition, Brown had dispatched Harvard by a four-goal margin earlier in the season. The stage was set for a classic Ivy battle...
...Beaten only be the Merchant Marines Academy and Tufts, the result was the best ever for Harvard at the event. Unfortunately, Harvard couldn't find the same success at the national qualifier...
Once again Harvard had difficulty in the top singles positions as it was beaten in the first two spots. Last year, Wang stunned Nikolaus during the Crimson's 19-5 campaign, but history was not meant to repeat itself, as the Nikolaus cruised by Wang, 6-1, 6-2. She had similar disappointing luck against Michelle...