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That progress may owe something to Clinton's artful exercise in euphemism and paraphrase, an effort to avoid some of the phrases that seem to conjure images of a sprawling, socialist nightmare. At town meetings and health forums in Charlotte, North Carolina; Topeka and Fairway, Kansas; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, the President rolled out a new script with five simpler talking points. "Universal coverage," for example, is now "permanent private health insurance." But the President was hard-pressed to avoid minutiae. Like Oz, he was faced with a new wish list from every American he met. At the foundry forum...
...down at 18, you have to give the other guy the chance to screw up. That's what Lehman tried to do: eliminate the bunkers on the left side of the fairway that gape 256 yards away...
...CALLAWAY GOLF CO.'S ULTRA-ENGINEERED Big Bertha driver connects with a common golf ball, the space-age sound is no auditory accident. Forget thwack or clink -- think of a high-performance computer firing up. The low- tech ball, meanwhile, has landed 20 to 30 yds. farther down the fairway than you expected. "I've played for 61 years," says 12-handicapper Thomas Dight, 76, a retired Long Island, New York, school superintendent who prowls the links all summer long in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. "I've never seen anything like...
...were cracking too easily, Callaway improved the casting molds and added spines on the inner striking wall to diffuse shock waves. A onetime club champion who still hits a respectable drive, Callaway took Bertha out for testing and found he could loft the ball, straight and true, from a fairway lie. "I figured if I can do that," he explains, "it would please a lot of people...
...interesting personal details with colorful snippets of writing. The Japanese wife of the head of Nintendo of America learns English by watching TV and "developed an accent decidedly reminiscent of Peter Falk's Columbo." Her husband has an odd habit of falling asleep in strange places -- including on a fairway during a major golf tournament as Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino teed off. And the book claims Dustin Hoffman wanted to play the computer character Mario in the movie adaptation because his kids loved the game (the movie is currently in theaters with Bob Hoskins in the lead role...