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...Dogs generally don't step on third rails. But if they do you will replace them. However,' said I, 'if you are worried about that, then build two fences, and have the dogs run between the two fences.' He said, 'No.' I said, 'Why?' He said: 'Because somebody might climb over the fences, and the dog would bite him.' I said, 'I thought that is what dogs were for. But if you are afraid a dog will bite somebody, then use a wolf.' I said, There is no recorded case of a wolf attacking a human being, except...
...experience. One result is some unrealistic career timetables." Financial Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer expressed similar concern after going to Columbia and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and speaking with M.B.A.s working in Manhattan: "The analytical tools they had acquired in business school certainly enabled them to rapidly climb through corporate hierarchies, but few could explain what exactly they had contributed in new ideas, new products or new technologies. The creative mainspring of American business still seems to reside in self-made entrepreneurs and innovative tinkerers...
Criminals are not known for following the daily fluctuations of commodities markets, but they do have a sense of the value of things. When copper prices begin to climb, urban vandals start pulling pipes out of abandoned apartment buildings. Gold prices soar, and thieves start ripping necklaces off passersby. Now, with aluminum prices on the rise (up 36% since 1979), black market entrepreneurs are starting to chop down and steal streetlight poles...
Dressed in space suits, the two men ride up the giant service tower, pause for a last briefing and with a chipper, thumbs-up wave climb into their spacecraft. The ship's three main engines roar to life, gulping supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen out of the huge silo-shaped fuel tank As the engines throttle to 90% of full power the spacecraft and tank bend ever so slightly. When they snap back, two solid-fuel rockets strapped to the silo's sides are ignited. Belching flame and smoke, the entire 18-story-high "stack "-spacecraft fuel...
...world, especially because of their unorthodox and innovative training methods. Often borrowing and improving on each other's ideas, the Reeses have been known to have their swimmers pull themselves up football-stadium ramps on "body scooters," kick in the deep end of the pool with leg weights, and climb ropes wearing lead-filled hunting jackets to develop upper body strength. Randy invented special arm paddles which create water resistance while correcting strokes, and Eddie trained his Texas swimmers in a 16 2 3-yd.-long pool this year so that they could get used to swimming at the race...