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...felt like a blob of jelly, weak and not sharp at all the first day back," the freshman breaststroker/medleyist said Wednesday night. "But the speed is still there and we've built a good training base so I think my endurance should hold...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Swim Team Set to Prove Itself | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

Even if you overlook the fact that the proposal is just so much political baggage, however, the content of the legislation is grounds enough for dismissal. It is ironic that the Washington outsider whose 1976 campaign platform promised to pare down the overgrown federal blob has thrown his support behind a proposal that will further crowd the Washington community and further extend a tradition of Washington mismanagement. A separate cabinet-level Department of Education, is the easy way out. For more than 30 years, education has been the orphan child of the Washington bureacracy--drifting from the Interior Department...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: No More DOE's | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...Artifacts in New York City, came to watch. He already owns a part of the façade of the old Chicago Stock Exchange and the cornice of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel. He suggests people start saving, for future investment, early formica tabletops "with the pink-and-gray blob design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Opponents of the legislation, who come from a wide variety of backgrounds armed with a variety of different axes to grind, argue that a new Cabinet level department would simply add more fatty tissue to the federal blob. Some, like Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.). believe that funding lies at the heart of the system's problem and that "increased appropriations are not dependent upon the creation of a new department." Individuals like Rosenthal and organizations like the United States Catholic Conference--a major lobby for private school interests--argue that the legislation's proponents must prove...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Where to Put The 'E' In HEW? | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

Psychologist John O'Connell, 29, codirector of the foundation, wants to see the nation playing less baseball and more blob. Says he: "In traditional team games like baseball, it usually becomes apparent halfway through the game who the winners and losers will be. Then the losers play badly and have a miserable time." But O'Connell and the foundation want to restructure these time-honored sports activities so that everyone plays and no one loses. In a version of "new volleyball," the aim is to keep the ball from hitting the ground rather than to score points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: No Victor, So No Spoils | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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