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...midafternoon in a windowless room in an office building south of the San Francisco airport, and the man once known as Meathead is perspiring. His beefy hands gesticulate and then clutch the podium as he confides his life story. "Twenty years ago," he says, "I had a tough time in my life. I got divorced. I went into therapy. Now I'm doing O.K. I have three kids, a good job." Pause. "A nice suit." The audience laughs on cue, and the former Meathead plunges on. "But the early experiences I had as a child directly affected how I functioned...
...pass a slim, demure-looking girl with glasses and a pink sweatshirt. She's chatting with a man tinkering with the monstous engine of his Mustang. "What's it like running out there?" she responds to our question, "Tonight was shitty. The accelerator was loose and the fuckin 'clutch jammed and I was slipping all-the-fuck-over the place!. But it's always something, I guess. It's good times, though." Could you really do any better at Lucky Cheng...
...Clutch Performance...
...Crimson refused to go quietly, however and fought for three more points including a clutch kill by Denniston...
They are not alone. A clutch of new satellite-based services from a half-dozen similar corporate alliances is launching into orbit. They are likely to turn the earth's lower atmosphere into a space jam of communications links promising to keep us in touch--anytime, anywhere. The systems rely on a new version of an old (at least for the aerospace business) and proven technology...