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Tall, white-haired and earnest, Clarence Long, 71, has won nine elections to Congress from suburban Baltimore by following a simple formula: ignore his opponent and pay close attention to his constituents, whom he tends every weekend from a mobile office parked outside libraries, post offices or schools...
...dollar. De Vries has forecast U.S. balance of payments results so accurately that the Federal Reserve once launched an investigation to find out if some of its staffers were leaking the figures before the official publication date. All the Fed learned was that De Vries has a "secret formula" for calculating trade balances that he vows never to reveal...
...clothes. In a required course on leadership--the cadets call it "Leadersleep"--an instructor is trying to urge first classmen to try and determine what individual characteristics separate leaders from other people. "Individual traits, sir?" questions one cadet who looks as if he has rubbed his black shoes with Formula 409 for 15 minutes. "They issue them to you on the first day of 'Beast...
...This is part of the final exam given at the BSR Counter-Terrorist Driving School. It is the culmination of a four-day course held at Summit Point, W. Va., about 80 miles west of Washington. Instructor Bill Scott, 42, a Yale Ph.D. in geology and an ex-champion Formula Super Vee race-car driver, started the course in 1976 after the Air Force asked him to provide driver training for some of its officers. Since then, Scott and three other instructors, backed by a team of mechanics, have trained hundreds of chauffeurs and corporation executives in how to foil...
...rejected Trudeau's proposed changes on the grounds that some of their considerable powers would be usurped. They argued that under British parliamentary tradition, human rights are more securely protected by legislatures than by the courts. Quebec's Lévesque, for example, opposed the language-rights formula because he felt it would undermine his provincial government's control over Quebec's cultural identity. Indeed, the premiers were anxious to talk about expanding their powers and blamed Trudeau for insisting on a heavily centralized view of Canadian federalism...