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...biggest factor in Wednesday's fight will be Hearn's incredible 78-inch reach. Leonard's reach is being advertised as 74 inches, but that is simply a promoter's lie. Sugar Ray's reach, in the past, has been 70 inches, even. Today it is 70 inches. That puts Leonard at an eight-inch reach disadvantage. To the uninitiated, fighting with an eight-inch disadvantage is like trying to hit a home run in the major leagues with a whiffle-ball...
...have enough machinery to handle the job." Climatic vagaries have been compounded by perennial Soviet agricultural mismanagement. Incentives to collective farmers to increase production still appear to be lacking. Gaping holes between rows of wheat and other crops are evidence of farmers' disinclination to make every inch of land count. To compound the problem, thievery is widespread. Says one Western agricultural expert: "Collective-farm drivers just stop their trucks along the road somewhere and empty a pile of grain on the ground. Then they come back to collect it to feed their own livestock or to sell privately...
Dade County's board of commissioners is about to consider the zoning change. But the residents, who are already suing the county to save their homesteads, contend that the land is no longer a true wetland. They are determined to fight for every square inch. As one told County Planner Sam Poole, "If we don't get justice through the courts we'll get it with our guns...
...generation of regional and short-haul carriers that are slashing prices, adding routes and grabbing business away from some of the largest and best-known American carriers. Since January, passenger volume on American Airlines has slumped by 3.8%, while on TWA it is down 10.7%. Though American managed to inch back into profitability during the first six months of 1981, TWA lost $11.1 million, while United Air Lines, Eastern and Pan Am were...
Klutzy and learned, embarrassing and quizzical, eloquently obsessed with inarticulacy-such was Guston's art. "Human consciousness moves," he remarked in the mid-'60s, "but it is not a leap: it is one inch. One inch is a small jump, but that jump is everything. You go way out, and then you have to come back-to see if you can move that inch." As the paintings prove, he could...