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...stone." Nancy played a featured role in Steven's minimum opus Firelight, a sci-fi thriller made when he was 16 and she was eight. "I played a kid in the backyard who was supposed to reach up toward the firelight. Steven had me look directly at the sun. 'Quit squinting!' he'd shout. 'Don't blink!' And though I might have gone blind, I did what he said because, after all, it was Steven directing...
...girl hitchhiking from the desert to the Pacific Ocean. The day after Spielberg showed the film at Universal, he was called in by Sidney Jay Sheinberg, head of TV production, and offered a seven-year contract to direct Universal TV series. He was 20 years old. "I quit college," Spielberg says, "so fast I didn't even clean out my locker...
...Patels followed. Naranji Patel, 45, owner of the Sands and Park View lodgings in San Jose, estimates that up to 80% of the state's 1,500 independently run motels with fewer than 25 rooms are in Indian hands. Most lodgings were purchased from small operators who wanted to quit the business. Says Patel: "We knew each other from India, before we came out. The personal relations make a lot of difference. It's just word of mouth...
...that the underdeveloped countries, which have the greatest need for scientists, engineers, managers and other professionals, are in fact losing many of their best-educated young men to the developed countries." Even among unskilled workers, the U.S. tends to attract the most enterprising -- those who are adventurous enough to quit their homes and strike out for new opportunities in America...
...Argentine President Raul Alfonsin has tried a variety of economic programs in an attempt to control inflation, now steaming ahead at an annual rate of 1,010%. While well intentioned, his efforts have generally been viewed with the same skepticism that attends an inveterate smoker's vow to quit even as he reaches for his third pack...