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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successor and moved his belongings out of his twelfth-floor suite. In effect, Caldwell for five months has run the giant automaker (1979 revenues: $43.5 billion). Ford, however, remains the head of the board of directors' powerful finance committee, and an old colleague has cautioned: "Don't count him out." Still, for the first time since 1906, a non-Ford is in the driver's seat...
...final analysis, diving and relay points could well determine this year's champion. "We've got to do well in the relays if we're going to win," Cal coach Nort Thorton predicts. "Those double points [relays count twice as much as individual events in the scoring] often are the difference in a close championship meet...
...basic data provided by the National Weather Service. A private ser vice, Accu-Weather, supplies information to more than 40 TV stations around the nation. But weathermen, the good ones at least, pa somewhat like doctors: several examining the same patient may arrive at different diagnoses. Experience and savvy count-knowing, for example, when a minor geographical shift of a pressure system might make the difference between a drenching rain and a couple of feet of snow...
...novel, The Women's Room (1977). It hit middle-class America at the right time. Consciousness was up; stale marriages were crumbling like mummies exposed to the air; Jacks were breaking their crowns and Jills stopped tumbling after. The Women's Room certainly contributed to the body count. Its views were stated with unnerving energy and conviction; the prose was tight; the suburban settings had the authentic odor of nylon pile, and the characters were quivering chunks torn from the author's own life. Her soul on ice, Marilyn French sounded like a feminist Eldridge Cleaver...
...though, all this talk about team performance is of little value. Swimming is, after all, an individual sport, and individual performances are what really count. And the Crimson had no shortage of outstanding individuals to make up a really outstanding individuals to make up a really outstanding squad...