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...martial arts fans, Bruce Lee chops his way through myriad enemies at Quincy House in a double bill of Fists of Fury and The Chinese Connection. And there's a different style of fighting in Jack Johnson at Science Center C. Johnson (remember The Great White Hope?) features actual footage from the black champion's bouts and includes a soundtrack composed for the movie by Miles Davis. Along with Johnson, Whirlwind L.B.D. is presenting Right...
...running hard just to stay even, and that cannot go on indefinitely." So warned Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn last week as he and New York State officials desperately glued together yet another financial "solution" designed to keep New York City from defaulting on its myriad loans-for the time being...
Both effects seemed related to a phenomenon called dilatancy-the opening of a myriad of tiny, often microscopic cracks in rock subjected to great pressure. Brace even suggested at the time that the physical changes associated with dilatancy might provide warning of an impending earthquake, but neither he nor anyone else was quite sure how to proceed with his proposal. Dilatancy was, in effect, put on the shelf...
...program "is not good politics," and its chances of being adopted by the present liberal Democratic Congress are slim. Still, his proposal should stimulate public debate on a long-neglected issue: how to trigger a faster rate of capital accumulation that would enable the U.S. to finance the myriad private and public investments it must pay for in the next few years...
...took two wearying months for Wyoming's conservative-minded ex-Governor Stanley K. Hathaway, 51, to get through the grilling from U.S. Senators on his nomination to be Secretary of the Interior. They demanded to know his views on strip mining, oil shale and myriad other environmental issues. As he absorbed the punishment, Hathaway often drummed his fingers on the table...