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...When Referee Richard Steele paused to have the ringside physician re-examine the champion's wound, a bolt of fear struck the Petronelli brothers in Hagler's corner. But the doctor's brisk finding was that Marvin could see all right, and Goody Petronelli felt a strange sensation of calm. He and Pat first encountered Hagler when he walked softly into their gym in Brockton, Mass., as a 16-year-old, a child of Newark who happened to find himself living in Rocky Marciano's home town. They gave him a job with their construction company and a place...
...cried, slamming down his pencil, "I can't listen to all this." In the midst of the imbroglio sat one remarkably serene and smiling figure: David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the straight-shooting point man of the Reagan Revolution. He could afford to be calm. After more than four years of sound and fury, he had just announced his departure from Government for the far more lucrative realm of Wall Street...
...associate editor with TIME's Asian edition before taking on the same role for the European edition in London, she was known as "Moneypenny," after the indefatigable assistant in the James Bond series. The nickname reflected not only Penny's remarkable efficiency and industriousness, but also the bemused calm with which she was able to soothe even our most voluble foreign correspondents. Indeed, for reporters working from the world's war zones and other unsavory hot spots, the sound of civilization was Penny's marvelous, sprightly voice. But another thing that Penny knew was when work could wait. She once...
...Nelson said. “To have a tie with Penn, a ranked team, to go into overtime, and lose by one goal, that’s huge. That is huge for our program. So to take the positives, we had an attack out there that was calm and settled in possessing the ball, and just played pretty lacrosse, and you know what, these are going to start going...
...games. There is no evidence that this hunger within us will ever die, even as our bodies age. And who would want it to? Nothing beats the rapid-fire thrill of a first person shooter, or the evocations and exhilarations of a sports game, or the alternating states of calm cerebral alertness and frantic applied engagement that characterizes more complicated games like Civilization, Age of Empires, or Starcraft/Warcraft...