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...just have a gut feeling that it would be foolish to try to meet the September 15 deadline," Bertagna said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stadium Repair May Displace Harvard Football Home Games | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

...employees will now wait for the regional director of the NLRB to determine the merit of their claim. "Our gut reaction is that their common law rights were violated." Siegel said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fired Ferdinand's Employees Charge Unfair Labor Practices | 1/8/1982 | See Source »

...academically elite. The grade inflation that began in the late '60s has made it difficult to distinguish the brilliant from the merely bright. Many college chapters, including Harvard's, now examine the records of candidates to be sure their good grades were not garnered in too many "gut" courses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two Centuries of Elitism | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

Exaggeration is an intoxication of words. Language temporarily loses its self-control; it veers around ther room making drunken passes at reality, biting its ear, whispering hyperhole, evem drooloing a little; YOUR SEARING GUT-WRENCING WORK IS THE LITERALLY EVENT OF THE DECADE . . .SPELLBINDING . . . MAGNIFICENT. . . A WASHDAY MIRACLE, WHITER THAN WHITE . . . A NEW STANDARD BY WHICH ALL THOROUGHBRED DRIVING MACHINES WILL BE MEASURED . . . I WILL NEVER LIE TO YOU . . . I AM NOT A CROOK. I WILL BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET . . . WE'LL GET MARRIED AS SOON AS THE DIVORCE COMES THORUGH . . . such episodes leave a man feeling like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A World of Exaggeration! | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...were left after ten days of workouts in up to 110° heat. The others quit. "It was an effort to survive," says Pardee. "Each player could tell his own story, but mine was simply to make it to the next practice." The Bryant term for such tests: "gut checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1, and Still Counting | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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