Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percentage is even higher this year) that the services are refusing some re-enlistment applications and reducing annual recruiting targets. "They come in here and say to us, 'I want this or I want that or I don't join,' " says Field. "We tell 'em to hit the bricks. There's a lot of others beating the door down...
...honored. I fear that a pattern has been established. Instead of denouncing much a trend with hard words. I would like to suggest another way that the Foundation can bring a little Hollywood to Harvard. Why don't they invite Duffy Duck? Oh yea, that little varmint will pack'em in. In addition, he fits the Foundation's criteria for guests: he's black, a celebrity, and no matter what he says no one will be offended. Duffy is irresistible case and will not offer anything even remotely related to race relations. Who could be more ideal? Jeffrey Freguson...
...blast had laid open a shoulder, an arm and a leg. The arm was spouting blood from a main artery. Johnson stuck his fingers in the holes to slow the hemorrhaging long enough for him to get a pressure bandage in place. Stop the bleeding, treat' em for shock, get 'em to a chopper. It wasn't pretty, and it wasn't textbook medicine, but Reid was going to make...
...past month, Metromedia Telecommunications, a division of the big television-and radio-station owner, has been blitzing the New York metropolitan area with an advertising campaign for its new rental beeper, fittingly named the Li'l Bugger. Suggests a newspaper ad: "Lose 'em, beep 'em-find 'em, keep 'em." The Li'l Bugger, which is powered by one A A 1.5-volt battery and has a range of 30 miles, rents for $39.95 a year with a $5-a-month broadcast fee and a 25? charge per call. Metromedia says it has been getting...
...hunk, chiefly responsible for the return to glamour is Tom Selleck, the 6-ft. 4-in., 200-lb. star of CBS's Magnum, P. I., which premiered in 1980. A genial shoot-'em-up, Magnum is set in Hawaii, a location that allows Selleck, 38, to romp on the beach and show off his grizzly-bear chest to the camera with once-a-week regularity. No. 2 in the latest Nielsen ratings, the show has apparently propelled Selleck to movie stardom as well. His first feature film, High Road to China, displaced Tootsie as the box-office leader...