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...club also invested in a ping-pong playing robot, the NEWGI 2000, to help improve its competitiveness. The technology will allow club members to get quality practice even when the entire club is not meeting...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Who Needs Funding, Anyway? | 5/17/1995 | See Source »

...After he bought MGM in 1969, he sold off the studio's choicest assets, from its immense library of old films to warehouses filled with props and other paraphernalia. Later he added United Artists, but for him it has always been the deal, not the business. In one famous Ping-Ponging transaction, he sold MGM/UA to Ted Turner for $1.5 billion in 1986, then bought back everything but the film library for less than $800 million, and then sold it all again in 1990 for $1.3 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUNSHINE BOYS | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...ridiculous to ask just what is going on here. After all, Michael Jordan, no matter how skilled, is still only one basketball player. Can he really make that much of a difference? Should he even be allowed to bounce back and forth between sports like a ping-pong ball, until he finds a level that can satisfy his competitive needs...

Author: By Jason E. Kolman, | Title: Jordan, Take Two | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

Other upcoming Leverett events include the house "Dating Game," scheduled for November 7, and the "Lizard Show," a talent show modeled after "Saturday Night Live," on December 14. The house is also pricing ping-pong tables to replace the current one, which is broken...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Community BRIEFS | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

...week to help students who have fallen behind, another week to give special attention to gifted students. Schools may also offer enrichment classes in such topics as photography or world cultures. "Even when they're on intersession, kids come to the school recreation room to play pool, Monopoly and Ping-Pong," says Eva Valencia, a volunteer coordinator at a Socorro school. "This way the kids can come to school instead of hanging out on the streets and joining gangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone into the School! | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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