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With his effort--which included a 45-yd. dash--the San Antonio, Tex. native regained the top spot among Harvard rushers. Santiago now has picked up 180 yards on 33 carries, moving him within 525 yards of number five on the all-time Harvard career rushing list...
...than 100 fieldworkers and editors for his dictionary as long ago as 1963. Building on a trove of 40,000 folk words donated by the American Dialectic Society, he dispatched his researchers to tape more than 1,000 interviews with homeborn locals in all 50 states, working from a list of 1,847 questions. Sample: "When a firecracker doesn't go off and you break it in the middle and light the powder, you call it a ----." The answer in New York City: "Corpse-maker." Atop these replies the Cassidy team piled phrases and phonations from local newspapers, diaries, letters...
...obstructionist art are the Japanese, who in the past have become infamous for strict inspections of everything from autos to baseball bats. The Japanese government has been gradually easing many regulations, but some niggling barriers remain. In the cosmetics and grooming- aid business, the government has an official list of colorants and preservatives that are allowed to be in products. But there is also a supplemental group of permissible ingredients that do not appear on the list because they have been used for many years and have grandfather status. The problem is that only established Japanese companies and the government...
With such potential terrorist targets as Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski and Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq on the guest list, the precautions are not excessive. The U.N. has been brushed by terrorism before. In 1964, as Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara was castigating the U.S. in the General Assembly chamber, an anti-Castro group fired a 3 1/2-in. bazooka round at the U.N. from the Queens side of the East River. (It fell 200 yds. short, rattling the windows and more than a few delegates.) The security chiefs' greatest fear...
...boss or client. No one should end a phone conversation by saying "Have a nice day," she counsels. "The person you say that to may be facing an IRS audit or a tooth extraction." For those too shy to make small talk at cocktail parties, Baldrige offers a list of innocuous conversational subjects. Examples: landscape gardening, Princess Diana, the A.S.P.C.A., professional wrestling and the use of hypnotism to stop smoking...