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...five meters or so and begin stroking. Except Berkoff. He stays 5 ft. underwater, on his back, wriggling along with a legs-together dolphin kick, like that used by butterflyers. This is astonishing not to see. Most of the lanes are filled with thrashing swimmers, and Berkoff's is placid. At 35 meters (or 32 kicks, as he counts underwater), Berkoff pops up, half a body length ahead of everyone else. Not, he says, desperate for air, but "quite comfortable." Apparently so. He beat Soviet Igor Poliansky's 100- meter world record by five one-hundredths in the prelims...
...plummeted to $1 billion or less, and it could keep right on shrinking until they are no longer "big rich," as Texans refer to the truly wealthy. The brothers are fighting a complex and heated battle with creditors to retain control of the two pillars of their crumbling empire, Placid Oil and Penrod Drilling...
This summer, though, boaters accustomed to placid rides along the Tenn-Tom are complaining about the growing number of barges loaded with coal, chemicals and other freight. Since the drought has made the Mississippi more hazardous for some vessels, many shippers have turned to the Tenn-Tom, still easily navigable. Says Joe Pyne, president of Houston-based Dixie Carriers: "Without it, some companies would have shut down." In July the waterway carried 2 million tons of cargo, the first time that mark was reached in a single month. So far this year, 5.8 million tons have been hauled...
...self-confidence that the Democrats carry to Atlanta this week is a far cry from the cacophonous clashes and me-too defensiveness that characterized recent conventions. But the placid surface should not mask the reality that the party has embarked on a bold and different course. The curtain has finally fallen on the liberalism that guided F.D.R., Lyndon Johnson and -- yes -- Walter Mondale. Now it is up to Michael Dukakis to define its postliberal soul...
...things seem more placid today, that is only because the hired guns are lawyers and lobbyists camouflaged in pinstripes. High-stakes hydrobattles are brewing throughout the West as it runs out of new water sources. This arid region -- stretching from the 100th meridian to the Pacific -- now finds itself unable to accommodate both its rapid urban growth and a powerful agribusiness that guzzles 85% of all water at heavily subsidized prices that offer little incentive for conservation...