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Unable to confront the fact that her own environment completely lacks the furious romantic grandeur of Wuthering Heights. Manon strikes out restlessly and blindly. She is fierce and jealous in her demands for her mother's love, but when she runs away from home for a day she flees something greater and more upsetting than a simple realization of her mother's independence. At 13, Manon chugalugs beer, puffs cigarettes and inhales pot, but none of these divertissements satisfies her. Indeed, they are completely irrelevant to Manon's dark, seething inner life...
...quality-control inspector. If they spot a faulty item in the production process, they are encouraged to shut down the whole assembly line to fix it. Pressure to improve quality reaches beyond the shop floor and often pits entire plants of competing companies like Hitachi and Sony in furious statistical battles to produce the lowest defect rates for products...
Chances are the 5-ft. 2-in., 103-lb. teen-ager will not have to. She is already the most recognizable figure in skating. The reason is simple: Zayak can do triple jumps. Until a few years ago, when Olympic Silver Medalist Linda Fratianne first began to perform those furious leaps in competition, triples were attempted by only the strongest of male skaters. Fratianne did two triple jumps in her free-skating program. Elaine Zayak does seven-and does not consider that the limit. "You have to do doubles, too, not just a triple here and there. Of course...
...Capitol Hill, the talk of advisers touched off a furious debate. Even some Republicans were worried. Said Jim Leach of Iowa, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "If we send advisers, and one or more are killed, we may well cause a nasty civil war to be come a Viet Nam in our own backyard." Said Maryland Democrat Clarence Long, chairman of a House subcommittee on foreign operations: "This Administration is making very much the same kind of mistakes that an Administration of my own party made 18 years ago." Long presided over hearings at which witnesses...
...turn those paper profits into real revenue, biologists with the prerequisite gene-manipulating skills are being recruited at a furious pace. Young scientists, the ink barely dry on their Ph.D.s, are being offered $30,000 a year, plus a little stock. Senior researchers are getting large chunks of the new companies. Others are fattening their relatively modest academic salaries by serving as part-time consultants to the new companies at fees of $1,000 or more...