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...sunny California, Reagan Campaign Strategist John Sears claims that the issues now lying limp on the table will take form by the first snowfall. "When the cold weather comes, the price of home heating oil is going to be a shock," he says. Sears has an ally in former Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who suggests that $1 a gallon for heating oil will be "a political disaster" in New England. Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Kansas get mighty cold too. Schlesinger also has a hunch that our chief supplier of imported oil, Saudi Arabia, will have something to say within these months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Forms Looming in the Mists | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...foot legs. The ball darted about leaving traces of its circular form, and when I went to hit the circular form, the ball slipped by me. I told my arms--commanded them--to hit the fucking ball, but they just laid numb by my side, dead. My legs went limp, and I quit the ping-pong game...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...fast stepping. Jaffe doesn't turn in much of a performance, however. If you want to see the finale, you have to wade through 300 pages of tedium. Expect to be disappointed. There is no splashy ending, no grand resolution. Jaffe just kind of shuffles offstage, leaving her limp figures behind...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Rona's Radcliffe | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...fast stepping. Jaffe doesn't turn in much of a performance, however. If you want to see the finale you have to wade through 300 pages of tedium. Expect to be disappointed. There is no splashy ending, no grand resolution. Jaffe just kind of shuffles off stage, leaving her limp figures behind...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Rona's Radcliffe | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

...Fisk is not moping around the clubhouse too much. After facing Detroit last month, Fisk said, "Yeah, I batted like a limp fish today, but I'm not going to take it too hard, because the more you think about it, the more you will fall into a mental slump, and that leads to worse." Fisk also said that he will take his sore elbow through the season a "day at a time, because at this point I know its hurt, I don't really know how, and there's nothing I can do to make it better but take...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Gerbil's Prayer | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

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