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...reality-distortion field. He has the ability to make people around him believe in his perception of reality through a combination of very fast comeback, catch phrases and the occasional very original insight, which he throws in to keep you off balance." By whatever name?the dream, the Ditch, the rap, the reality-distortion field?fobs' unwavering ambition and ferocious will have caused a number of people to be come rich. Says Jobs, employing perhaps extravagant arithmetic: "We've made about 300 people at Apple millionaires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Updated Book off Jobs | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

Here is what Red Stovall does not have: money, smarts or any reliable ability to keep that fine car out of the ditch or even on the right side of the road, especially all the way from Oklahoma to Nashville for his tryout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Plain Song | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...clinical trials with more than 1,400 patients, anaphylaxis occurred in only 1% of cases, and of these just two patients died. The mortality rate of .14% for chymopapain is about the same as that for lumbar disc surgery. Still, surgeons are cautioning patients that chymopapain is a last-ditch therapy short of surgery. In 95% of the millions of patients with herniated discs, the pain can be relieved by bed rest and aspirin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Help for Slipped Discs | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...stump he has come across as brainy and out of touch. His defensive response to a flurry of wimp jokes--he launched an ad campaign stressing that he had volunteered for the Marines during the Korean War--only accelerated his electoral decline. So did his outlandish last-ditch salvos at Thompson, like equating the incumbent with the Ayatollah Khomeini several weeks...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Of Wimps and Toughs | 11/2/1982 | See Source »

...game merely restored some pride--Saturday's keeps Ivy title hopes alive for this year's team...The six interceptors, in order of catch: John Dailey, Chris Myers, Myers, Andy Nolan Joe Azelby and Dailey. The last three came in the final quarter, when Princeton was making a last ditch effort to catch...

Author: By Michael Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gridders Gunther-Gebel Tigers, 27-15 | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

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