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...their pre-and post-game drinking, Owner George Lukas has had to lay off the day bartender; his business has dried up. The strike has disturbed not only the psyches of the fans but all the lives that depend on them. Fortunately, the San Diego Chicken has managed to cope. The Chicken, a cheerleader disguised as wacky poultry who has made himself famous by acting exuberantly weird at major league games, anticipated the strike and scheduled 30 appearances in June at minor league games. "Us chickens like the farms," he crows...
...motor that reduced fuel consumption by as much as 20%. The company also offers a sound-reduction system with its engines that cuts car noises and vibration by 8%. Such innovations bolster the firm's reputation for engineering. Says Tojo: "We have in our company enough technology to cope with whatever Detroit might come up with in the future...
...later, after several options had been considered, a telephone call interrupted the Cabinet meeting. It was Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Rafael Eitan. He tersely informed Begin that the attack had been a total success. For a further 70 minutes, the Cabinet considered how Israel should cope with the lesser danger of one of the Israeli warplanes being shot down or crashing on its return journey. A little before 7 p.m., another telephone call announced the safe return of all aircraft. Jubilantly, the gathering celebrated the event, and the meeting broke up. Begin had only one other...
...built in 1926 to hold 4,000 inmates, but currently filled with 5,600 convicts. Most are hardened criminals serving long sentences for crimes ranging from arson to rape and murder. Jackson's undermanned staff -there is only one guard for every 100 inmates-admits that it cannot cope with the heavily armed prisoners; according to one estimate they hone and hide more than 50 knives a day in the workshops...
While old savings institutions are struggling to cope, the new money hybrid of the future is rapidly materializing. Neither a simple savings and loan nor a conventional bank, it is a combination bank, insurance company, brokerage firm and credit-card company. The mergers in recent months of the Prudential Insurance Co. with Wall Street's Bache Group Inc. and American Express with the Shearson Loeb Rhoades brokerage firm provide a glimpse of the shape of things to come in finance. With the help of computers, plastic credit cards and toll-free long-distance phone calls, these money supermarkets...