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That's a lot of glitz for a man universally described as low key, soft-spoken and unfailingly polite. But in a crunch he can be ruthless in taking a company apart. The company he is aiming at now is the one Iacocca spent the best years of his life preserving. "I've got 47 years of good reputation at stake," says Iacocca. "I don't want to be tainted as somebody who went in there for a quick buck." Even so, the quick bucks are a good bet. It's all the rest that...
...well they should be. The amazing thing about sports is that the cliches fit. More often than not, they accurately describe the emotion and facts on the playing field. When the going gets tough (i.e. during crunch time or through adversity), the tough get going (see West, Montana, or DiMaggio, and for the reverse see Barry Bonds or John Thompson). The game isn't over till the fat lady sings. (See game six of the '86 world series.) There is no "I" in team (See the New Jersey Nets for the losing side of that coin, and the 1988 Dodgers...
...MANY OF US, Spring Break is the time of beer, beaches and boinking. For others, it is thesis crunch week. And for still more, it's just another nine days to have neurotic tizzy fits. Occasionally, like the writer of one of the postcards I received this week, Spring Break is a haven for the surreal. One of my readers seems to have spent Spring Break waiting for my next column...
...universe might well ``cycle,'' with a Big Bang followed by a Big Crunch followed by another Big Bang. Some stars could miss the crunch and continue to exist in the subsequent cycle. Thus some stars could very well be older than this universe...
...crunch time," said Adam D. Hefty '96, aDSA member and rally organizer...