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...survive an encounter with a bear on a hiking trip: make sure you take a friend along and run like hell. In choosing your companion, it is important that you select someone older, in worse physical shape and with more cellulite than you. You don't have to outrun the bear. You just have to outrun your pal. JOEL R. BRYAN Westlake Village, California

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1996 | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...Green, however, was the only Ivy team that could outrun the Crimson women. Brown (18-44), Yale (15-48) and Princeton (21-36) all fell by large margins as Harvard's deep team proved to be too much for them...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Goetze, Carswell Lead Harriers | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...thesis is complete and I thought to myself, 'What better thing to do than improve my cardiovascular condition?" the senior says. "Now I can outrun would be assassins...

Author: By Alexander D. Laskey, | Title: Assassin! | 4/27/1996 | See Source »

...estimates put Wilson's total last week just above $6 million, in contrast to $17 million for Dole and more than $12 million for Gramm. TIME has learned not only that Wilson's fund raising has slowed to a dangerous crawl, but also that he recently let spending outrun income by as much as $1 million and that some vendors are not being paid. That deficit alone might be enough to jeopardize the campaign next month when it files its third-quarter Federal Election Commission report. Wilson is now making money-raising phone calls "a mile a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK OR BUST | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

After nine brilliant years in office, during which he won plaudits as cheerleader-in-chief of this rusted industrial city on the Passaic River, James could be headed for a crash landing. The former high school track star, politically surefooted for 20 years, is trying to outrun an intensifying federal probe into his fund-raising tactics and his free-spending life-style. U.S. Attorney Faith Hochberg has peppered the mayor, his city hall subordinates and supporters with more than 100 subpoenas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RUNNER STUMBLES | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

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