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...resisted. The vows that couples devise are, with some exceptions, never as moving to the guests as they are to the couple. Too often the phrases, words overblown and intimate and yearning all at once, go floating plumply around the altar, pink dreams of the ineffable. Friends and family lean forward in their pews. The clergyperson beams inscrutably, abetting the thing, but keeping counsel. The guests are both fascinated and faintly appalled to be privy to such intense and theatrical whisperings. John Lennon and Yoko Ono once held press conferences while lying in bed, and the effect of the self...
...immediate it certainly is inevitable. Because of this, they say that United States policy towards the country is of the utmost importance. "A lot of the Blacks are disillusioned with capitalism, because they feel that America has not done anything for them, so they tend to lean toward socialism and the Soviet Union. They are beginning to see the United States as hypocritical," the junior says...
Then came the lean years for the University's most prominent public forum. In 1981, Harvard tapped Thomas J. Watson Jr. to give the address. Watson was hardly an obscure figure, having made headlines as president of IBM and then ambassador to the Soviet Union. But when the news of his selection was announced, more than a few students heard the name and wondered what a world-class golf pro would say to a crowd of graduates and dignitaries...
...reason for the difference is that People's work force is lean and productive. The airline has only 52 employees per plane; many other airlines have twice that number. Staff members are willing to switch from job to job, helping out where needed rather than enforcing strict work rules. "Customer service managers," as the company calls them, may act as flight attendants one day and reservation clerks the next. People's people have good incentives: on average, each owns some $55,000 worth of company stock...
...call this lean, gray machine a bike is a bit like calling a panther "pussy" or the Queen "Liz." It cost $700, has 15 speeds, with wires in odd places, and it floats on balloon tires that would make an ascent up Everest seem like a jaunt through Central Park. "You can go off the curb or hit a pothole, and you don't even feel it," boasts Broderick. "It's like a Cadillac. It's the most expensive thing I ever bought, and I did it on the spur of the moment. I asked Elizabeth Franz...