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...Angeles drivers (those who have not fled town) may be shortly lulled into resuming their ordinary ways. They could even come to the Games. Local newspapers burst with ads for tickets of every stripe, not all placed by overambitious travel agents or venal speculators. Not a few poor fans misunderstood the system or unstrategically overordered and have landed them selves in the ticket-brokering business on a big scale. A brisk market also developed in team pins, something of an Olympic tradition. "It's not like just a football game or something," said Cathy Fresh water, a supermarket checker...
...routines. They enjoy dressing up, abusing women--in one of the first scenes they dump a troublesome one into a trash can--and being generally vicious. The Kid spends his time dressing up (though in spike-heeled white boots rather than two-tone shoes), mistreating women, and being generally misunderstood and abusive. Quite a contrast...
...little that is known about pain and how to treat it is often misunderstood or ignored by physicians. A 1973 study by Psychiatrists Richard Marks and Edward Sachar of New York City's Montefiore Hospital found that nearly 75% of hospitalized patients receiving narcotics for moderate to severe pain failed to be relieved by the drugs. A review of their charts showed why. The dosages prescribed by their doctors were 25% to 50% less than what was needed to relieve severe pain. Records showed that nurses had further reduced these dosages substantially. The result: some patients were receiving less...
...being misunderstood by white listeners. The language of [black] culture grows out of our Christian faith. We gained strength from biblical heroes and heroines . . . People who don't understand my language-I am speaking English-are culturally deprived . . . When I give the example of rocks lying around and ask people to pick up their slingshots and throw their rocks, I'm not talking about hitting somebody. Blacks understand that I'm telling them to register and vote...
Many top executives, of course, are worth every dollar they earn-and more. Says Lester Korn, chairman of the headhunting firm Korn/Ferry International: "The question isn't how high salaries are, but how misunderstood they are." Top managerial talent is a limited resource, and companies must pay competitive rates to attract and keep the most sought-after executives. Shareholders have little reason to complain about the salary of a million-dollar manager who boosts the profits of a billion-dollar company. Says Lawrence Klamon, who earned $429,000 last year as president of Atlanta's Fuqua Industries...