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...anyone who works at a low-pressure, no-risk service job faces a daily battle with a quieter, more maddening foe: ruthless, relentless tedium. For some, "busy work" is a way of life. Get up. Go to work. Perform the same task over and over till lunch. Hope for some excitement. Perform the same task over and over till quitting time. Try not to go crazy...
Activists like Skolrood believe that the Religious Right, far from fizzling, will now be "more sophisticated and more encompassing." There are compelling signs of a quieter political competence. Sociologist Nancy Ammerman of Emory University points to "grass-roots organizations all over the place putting the conservative agenda in place -- locally, not nationally. Now they walk through the halls of capitols and do horse trading." In a parallel development, Fundamentalists have been steadily consolidating control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. One indicator of their impact was last month's resignation...
...running. From the truck's back, a large German Shepard leaps out, a thick piece of wood between his teeth. The driver checks the frontdoor of one of his client's homes and calls Dusty back to his place. In the background, almost incidentally, Tom's rendering of a quieter street in a colder season, looks...
Even the tight ends, usually quieter figures in Harvard's Multiflex offense, got into the action. Kent Lucas caught three passes for 76 yards and a touchdown. Backup Don Gajewski caught four for 72 yards...
Whatever action is taken, the Navy may still face a serious problem. Though the U.S. has only 96 attack submarines, in contrast to the Soviets' 265, the American fleet used to be considered stronger by virtue of superior technology. Now that the new Soviet subs are equipped with quieter propellers, that superiority is threatened. As a result, the Navy may convince Congress that the number of U.S. subs must be increased sharply. Because the newest submarines under development -- known as the Seawolf class -- will cost more than $1 billion each, it is the U.S. that could pay the highest price...