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...that amid this explosion of great science, the space story that has got by far the most TV coverage has been Shannon Lucid: plucky, hard-luck astronaut sentenced to six months of sponge baths and Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please? Is monitoring bone decalcification...
Having closely followed the making of the President since 1956, I am appalled by the dramatic rise of pointless hoopla during the national political-party conventions and the increasing lack of debate on important issues. The nadir was reached by the disgusting staging of a public-relations film by the G.O.P. It showed Dole in a small Italian town near where he had been seriously wounded in April 1945. This injury does not make him a war hero but a war casualty, and is certainly no guarantee that 50 years later he'll have a successful presidency...
Then came August, when Enrico learned that Pepsi's biggest bottler, Argentina's B.A.E.S.A., was rotten with financial problems--this coming on the heels of accounting shenanigans with Pepsi Bottling of Puerto Rico. And last week Pepsi's sad summer seemed to reach its nadir in Venezuela, the company's showcase South American market: overnight and without notice, Pepsi's independent (to say the least) bottler switched 18 plants and 2,500 trucks to archrival Coca-Cola, a midnight move that will cost Pepsi some $400 million in sales and $10 million in profits according to analysts if the defection...
...class of 1994 by the Office of Career Services (OCS), which surveys graduating Harvard seniors, showed that interest in eventual (longterm) careers in government and politics was at its lowest level since 1982. As far as immediate employment was concerned, 1994 jobs in government were at the nadir of the five year period (1990-1994) tracked by the study. Student interest in eventual careers in business, conversely, was at the highest level since 1989. Furthermore, business as both an eventual and immediate employment choice increased 2.4 percent and 3.1 percent between 1993 and 1994, respectively--by far, the largest increase...
Cases don't come any harder than Poncelet's. His drifting life reaches its nadir when, with another man, he commits a lovers' lane rape and double murder, steadfastly (and unpersuasively) insisting that he did not commit the killings. There is about him an inchoate rage tempered, if that's the word we want, by self-pity and a certain raw intelligence, which has led him to jailhouse lawyering and several stays of execution. It is largely the latter quality, and the challenging seductiveness of his manner, that leads Sister Helen to see in him the possibilities of redemption...