Word: formula
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Powell is caught up in the brave new whirl of sports science. Fast disappearing are the days when an elite athlete was simply the product of hard work, a gruff coach and a little luck. Today science has become an indispensable part of the formula for more and more world-class competitors, who find that the margin between gold and silver is often a centimeter or a hundredth of a second. Helping mold athletes today is a growing army of specialists -- from physiologists and psychologists to nutritionists and biomechanists. Result: athletes who are training not just harder but smarter. With...
...American women's real secret formula is what it has always been: talent cultivated through hard work. Evans, for example, looked barely pubescent in Seoul. Her small, flat body, coupled with the startling turnover rate of her stroke, yielded textbook efficiency underwater. Now 20 and womanly, 2 in. taller and 15 lbs. heavier, she says, "I really have to be aware of getting my speed up, so I train even longer." Evans probably ranks as the safest bet for gold on this gilded squad. She is returning in the 400-m and 800-m freestyle, not having lost at either...
...realistic, multilayered fare (I'll Fly Away, Civil Wars) seems to be shrinking. The sleeper hit of the summer is ABC's Jack's Place, set in a fancy big-city restaurant run by Hal Linden. Though not a Spelling production, it adheres to the classic Love Boat formula: two or three guest stars each week glide through cute, twisty tales of love lost and found. (Last week Robert Guillaume played a Broadway producer upset at a bad review written by a powerful theater critic: his ex-wife.) The show is mindless but inoffensive, and a good deal easier...
...political arena, as at GM, Perot is coming under heavy fire for relying on exhortation without offering specific programs. But Perot thinks a leader's job is to set goals and drive his followers to reach them by any means necessary. His formula at EDS was "a teaspoon of planning, an ocean of execution." Subordinates setting out to reorganize a customer's data- processing procedures were told only to "do what makes sense." That approach succeeded spectacularly at EDS, where goals could be simple and Perot could rely on well-understood rewards and punishments. It is questionable whether it would...
...appearing on The Arsenio Hall Show last week, Bill Clinton may have discovered the formula to revive his stalled campaign: exploit his sax appeal. During the brief rehearsal for the talk show, the visiting saxophone player joked nervously with the band, "If I screw up, play louder." Clinton need not have worried. So what if his wraparound shades were borrowed from an aide, the phosphorescent blue-and-yellow tie came from the show's wardrobe department, and some of the cool was donated by the adoring host? The image that came across on TV was that of a relaxed, self...