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...more dirt tracks the better because it is getting tougher practicing on public roads. "Things just went and got civilized on us," says Chuck Hefner, 25, who crisscrosses North Carolina servicing vending machines. "No matter how good you are, it's hard to outrun those two-way police radios...
...Lumley draw closer to Adamson and Fran, the latter two assume they are being followed for purposes of blackmail, and plot accordingly. This leads to two scenes of automotive terror-Blanche and Lumley trapped in a car hurtling out of control on a winding mountain road, then trying to outrun a pursuing sedan on foot-that are among the clumsiest sequences Hitchcock has ever put together...
...York's services, its hospitals, its open university, and its policy toward city workers have all been models to other cities in the country--even if its spending has outrun its revenues. And it is not entirely clear that the city's problems arose from these and other programs as much as the inequities of federal and state reimbursement formulas for New York's welfare system--inequities that make New York State 39th on the list of states receiving federal welfare subsidies, and force the city to take half the burden of welfare for single adults, childless couples...
Field said she was disappointed that some players were too hesitant and did not cut for the ball. Radcliffe's unaggressive play allowed Wheaton to control the action at crucial times. "We need to be more strategic, have more decoys and not be outrun," Field said...
Painful End. For the past seven years, the consumption of natural gas has outrun new discoveries at an alarming rate. Barring a dramatic reversal of present trends, the U.S. will exhaust its present proven reserves of 234 trillion cu. ft. in eleven years. There is no guarantee that new wells would bring in abundant new supplies. U.S. potential (as opposed to proven) gas resources are currently estimated at 322 trillion to 655 trillion cu. ft., roughly a 15-to 30-year supply, but that figure is little more than a guess. In any event, lead times for bringing...