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...never had real friends--or cared to. What he really craves is respect, and fear. As Steinbrenner himself once noted when asked about his breeding farm for horses: "Horses are great. They never complain, and they can't talk to sports writers and tell them what a bum the owner...
...curve cutting, is doing a brisk business in sports shops. Telemarking classes have become standard fare at the larger touring centers. There are even the first North American Telemark Championships in the offing. They will be held this March in Aspen. Says Suzanne Hogan, 32, a self-described ski bum and waitress at the Home Ranch: "Telemarking has all the excitement of white water and hang gliding. You're in the snow and part...
...Crimson began the season as the league's favorite in some experts estimation, but an early dry period suffered by offensive leader Don Fleming, followed by an injury to point guard Calvin Dixon and Trout's bum elbow derailed what could have been Harvard's first-ever championship team...
...There is a feeling that it is a bum idea and ought to be changed," says Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee. But, surprisingly, the leasing provisions are defended by some of the very economists who most harshly assail last year's giveaways. Brookings Institution Economist Barry Bosworth grumbles about "all sorts of crazy things" written into the bill but says the leasing provisions will lead to "a reasonable redistribution of [corporate] wealth." Even Greenspan approves the idea. One possible compromise: forbidding the sale of tax benefits by companies like Occidental, which are profitable...
...that they no longer wanted to pay for Francis M. Bator, professor of Political Economics, said last night that the new state responsibilities may not be accompanied by enough federal funds to pay for them. "I would guess that by and large state governments will think it is a bum deal," he added...