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Williams has pointedly refused to take out-of-state money, even turning down $10,000 from President Reagan's own PAC, the Citizens for the Republic. Of the $290,000 he has raised so far, $45,000 came out of his own pocket. The rest, he says, comes largely from donations by just plain folks in Montana. The average contribution...
...Witkowski stepped up in the pocket, clear of the Harvard rush, he noticed tight end Dan Upperco standing alone in the center of the end zone and hit him with a perfect spiral for the final score of the day. Columbia's try for a two-point conversion failed...
...surveillance equipment is foolproof, however, because miniaturized state-of-the-art components can easily be dropped into a pocket or hidden inside a coat lining. Says Robert McDiarmid, a former sheriffs lieutenant and now a partner in a California security firm: "I don't give a damn how good your system is, or how sophisticated your hardware. Generally speaking, when the system fails, it's a people failure." The best way to solve that problem may be the one used by companies like IBM and Apple Computer, which strive to keep their employees loyal by treating them fairly...
...gleam in their eyes, a Singapore firm has introduced blue jeans with a solid-gold label and a similarly lustrous price tag: $850. Yane jeans bear a Y-shaped trademark, which is made with 1.12 oz. of 22-karat gold, on the pants just above the right hip pocket...
Life was strict, punishment swift and reward restrained at home as at military school, though father and son were close. Ed occasionally used a wire coathanger "to get my attention," Ted recalls. He was assigned onerous chores to earn his pocket money, and by his late teens his father charged him rent during summer vacations. For Ted's graduation from his second military academy, the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ed Turner offered an enticing but booby-trapped present: a share of the cost of a Lightning-class sailboat. The rest was to come from Ted's savings...