Word: marathoning
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...true the inaugural year of legitimate student government wasn't scintillating. The marathon session last week where the council's picayune by-laws received approval was not a marked departure in size or substance from the nearly two dozen previous gatherings. Meetings rarely drew a crowd far above a quorum or attracted more than a handful of observers...
...hectic process," said co-author Joseph S. Nye Jr., professor of Government. "We had some marathon sessions where we met for 13 hours at a stretch. It's remarkable that we were to successful...
Reich charges that too many American managers have become "paper entrepreneurs," more concerned with manipulating short-term profits than with developing new products. He laments the rush of conglomerate building through mergers and acquisitions. U.S. Steel paid about $6 billion to buy Marathon Oil last year, Reich notes, even as the steel company's own plants were becoming increasingly obsolete. Says Reich: "Ours is becoming an economy in which resources circulate endlessly among giant corporations, investment bankers and their lawyers, but little new is produced...
Looking as fresh as if she had just completed an afternoon stroll, Home-Town Favorite Joan Benoit, 25, glided across the finish line of the 87th Boston Marathon in the time of 2:22:42. That was almost three minutes faster than the previous women's record for the distance, held jointly by New Zealand's Allison Roe and Norway's Crete Waitz. Incredibly, Benoit finished less than 14 minutes after the men's winner, Greg Meyer, 27, who crushed his own competition with a time of 2:09. Said Women's Runner-Up Jacqueline...
Mohrbacher says she feels prepared for the 20-mile marathon because she jogs regularly and "climbs nine flights of stairs, about six times a day at Leverett...