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...Pinpoint Precision. Coolness is still one of the man's most notable characteristics. Last week, as the Asian crisis bore down on him, Admiral Grant Sharp, now 58, well-decorated and as slender and hard as a torpedo (5 ft. 7 in., 147 Ibs.), described his activities and explained imperturbably: "These things are all thought out ahead of time. It is the culmination of a lot of planning, and the actual execution is fairly simple." True enough. But had he executed his orders with anything less than pinpoint precision, Sharp could well have triggered a disaster...
...prevents them from moving too far behind the industry or - what some executives fear even more - so far out that the public will reject their models. Intelligence is also invaluable for marketing and advertising campaigns, which are planned months in advance and can frequently make use of information to pinpoint weaknesses in another company's new line. The right kind of intelligence, on the other hand, can also save companies the embarrassment of duplicating too closely the styling of a competitor. "You need this kind of information," says retired Ford Styling Chief George Walker, "so you know what...
...days, then wait 36 hours for the drug to leave all the body's cells except those that may be cancerous. After that, samples of body fluid drained from the areas involved are centrifuged, spread on filter paper, dried and examined under ultraviolet light. "The smallest pinpoint of bright yellow fluorescence" is considered evidence of cancer, say Dr. Leslie J. Sandlow and Dr. Heinrich Necheles in this week's A.M.A. Journal...
...Pinpointing the Principles. This year, to avoid a disruptive clash, Laird consulted frequently with Rockefeller and Goldwater, more recently with Scranton, to pinpoint principles upon which all can agree. He has pleaded with state leaders to name reasonable, rather than emotional delegates to the 106-member Platform Committee (each state selects one man and one woman, as does the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands). The committee will include 16 members of Congress-largest number in the party's history-and Laird is high on its overall competence...
...soothe a severe case of arthritis. Yet his parched art now appears as if it were formed solely in the spread-eagle landscape, the quartz-clear air, and the human isolation of a land where nature seems with out scale. The figures in his paintings float like mirages, their pinpoint eyes sad as those of pedestrians in hell...