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...start chanting "Aurelia" or "Elena" yet. If gymnastics is among the most beautiful of the summer sports, it is also among the cruelest. Titles come and go overnight, lost by the most negligible slips or breaks of form on an apparatus. In Rotterdam, Dobre surprised even her own teammates by capturing the all-around title, nudging aside co-defending World Champions Shushunova and Oksana Omelianchik of the Soviet Union, who placed second and fifth respectively. Silivas, who had emerged as the 1987 European champion just five months earlier, fell to third following bobbles on the uneven bars and balance beam...
Breaking gridlock will take all the ingenuity the U.S. can muster, especially in a time when the nation cannot afford to buy millions of yards of concrete to pave over the problem. Says Burnley: "Because we are a free country, people are able to change their travel patterns overnight. So the challenge is to be able to think more creatively." But meanwhile, taxpayers and travelers will have to shoulder the cost for a prudent amount of highway patching and airport building. The longer such work is postponed, the more chronic the gridlock will become. If America still hungers to move...
James Baker (interrupting). That is so incorrect that I'd like to answer. What took us overnight -- we stayed up almost all night Wednesday, into the next day -- was an attempt to knock down rumor after rumor. That was a much bigger job than dealing with the underlying facts...
...mentality of profits-at-any-price will not change overnight, but new deterrents are on the way. Last week House Democrats John Dingell of Michigan and Edward Markey of Massachusetts introduced a bill that would raise the maximum penalty for insider trading for individuals to $1 million from the current $100,000, and would provide a bounty for informants. This fall 60 universities will teach ethics courses developed in a $5 million program sponsored by the Arthur Andersen accounting firm. Says James Bere, chairman of Borg-Warner: "I'm impressed by the number of people of my generation...
...this gentle fable, a twelve-year-old gets gonads overnight, and Tom Hanks proves himself the prince of '80s romantic comedy...