Word: controllable
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Pivotal to Norman's golf development was Charlie Earp, a teaching professional who wisely sought to harness rather than change the young man's adrenal urges. He encouraged Norman to hit the ball as far as he could, arguing that once you had length you could work on control. Norman now averages 280 yds. a drive; 260 yds. is considered good for a top pro. A few years back, during a pro-celebrity tournament at Gleneagles in Scotland, a wind-aided Norman drive measured 483 yds. Under Earp's tutelage Norman began cleaning up in amateur tournaments...
...ferryboats float along one side while automobile traffic skitters by on the other. Just past Grant's Tomb on the Hudson it looms: seven city blocks of arched white concrete with miles of pretzeling pipes and a sprouting of cylindrical smokestacks. This is the North River Water Pollution Control Plant, processor for a billion gallons of sewage a week and a monument in its own right. For decades, pols, bureaucrats and engineers here tangled over how to deal with so many people flushing and washing and whatnot. While they jawed, everything went straight into the Hudson River...
...process soon spun out of control. Because Bush had kept everything to himself, no one had thought of how to present Quayle to the press. Expecting the choice to be Dole, Bush's senior staff enlisted the veteran Reagan adviser Stu Spencer to keep Dole under control. But Spencer proved too domineering for Quayle. He called him Danny and treated him like a college freshman. At Quayle's first press conference, the Bush staff was relieved at his ability to handle the issue of Paula Parkinson, the onetime Playboy model who very briefly shared a Florida vacation house with Quayle...
...something striking happened: black voters, many of them registered by the Jackson campaign of 1984, turned out in larger percentages than their white counterparts, defying historical patterns, and helped elect liberal whites in two key states, Alabama and California. This, with white liberal victories in other states, returned control of the Senate to Democrats...
That shift in control meant, among other things, that Joseph Biden, not Strom Thurmond, became chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. So when Robert Bork was nominated for the Supreme Court, the judge whose qualifications seemed indisputable found himself facing a panel that would respond to the special interests. Bork, by sticking to his record, was in the position of denying rights of privacy to gays and to those using contraception, of opposing civil rights and women's rights as well as abortion. Yet a majority of Americans agreed with the special interests on the rights of privacy...