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...Giant veterans have shown a restraint born of hard times. End George Martin says, "The defense we've played the past two weeks has been so incredible, Harry Carson and I keep thinking we're going to wake up and be 3-12-1 again." Elway's less lionized counterpart, Phil Simms, 30, still refers to "the anxiety of being a Giant. Jeez, it's been hanging over our heads for so long. The distant past, the recent past. Maybe this will stop some of the past. Maybe people will start talking about our team...
...pleased. The Screen Actors Guild, the American Film Institute and the American Society of Cinematographers have denounced the practice. John Huston has suggested a boycott of products advertised on TV showings of colorized movies. The Directors Guild is looking for legal ways to block colorization. Its British counterpart has simply called on the government to outlaw it. Conspiracy to colorize: three years to life...
Famed for their virtuous works and pious Coach Paterno ("St. Joe" to Miami counterpart Jimmy Johnson), the Nittany Lions were outrushed moderately and outpassed spectacularly throughout a battle that only they appeared to be waging from the edge of a cliff. For a considerable time, Penn State's offensive star was not D.J. Dozier but Punter John Bruno. While it is true that, in the final analysis, the Lions seemed a bit smarter than Miami, it is truer that they were a lot meaner...
Just what the Kremlin has in mind may become clearer this week, when U.S. Negotiator Max Kampelman and his Soviet counterpart, Victor Karpov, meet again in Geneva in an effort to push stalled arms talks forward. Some Republican supporters on the Hill hope that by breaking the unratified treaty, the White House has cleared the way for fresh negotiations between the two countries. But the Soviets could just as easily react in a dangerous way: many arms- control experts believe Moscow is capable of deploying thousands of strategic weapons more than the U.S. in the near future...
...decade. One reason: they face fierce competition from what economists call the newly industrialized countries, like South Korea, Taiwan and Brazil. The NICs compete largely by paying lower wages. The average hourly salary of a South Korean steelworker, for example, is one-sixth the level of his Japanese counterpart...