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...David is in are beginning to demonstrate gains, but many more of them will be needed if the nation's youth is to lose its flaccid profile. Meanwhile, health experts read with awe and admiration about China and West Germany, where strenuous exercise programs for children are the norm. American lassitude is proving difficult to overcome. "It isn't like being in the locker room with 45 players and you go through that door and get immediate results," says George Allen, after five years of being coach to the nation. "It's very difficult to motivate 225 million Americans...
...world's busiest airports. On paper, the center has more controllers than its authorized strength of 350. But only 183 have reached full-performance-level status. Where it was once standard for controllers to be at their positions for only four of the eight hours in a shift, the norm at Aurora is now six. Coupled with mandatory overtime, this pace, contends one Aurora controller, "is burning most...
...that all. Within a week Board Chairman -- and Texas Governor-elect -- Bill Clements announced the abolition of special admissions that let in some 15 athletes a year with SAT scores as low as 700 (400 points below the norm). And Clements declared he was "dead serious" about dropping the football program outright if it could not be brought under control...
...Numbers alone will not solve the problem," Austin says. "There's got to be a sharing of power and a change from the norm...
...think the free market and democratic institutions will become the norm, instead of the exception," McPherson said. He said he saw sound economic policies as the key to solving the problems of poverty and famine around the world...