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During all of these splashing, yelling casualties, the clock ticks on, and boats eager to get through entangle themselves worse, to the chagrin of spectators on the bridges above them. These are the moments when people ask, "Is this really championship racing, or just a glorified raft-race...
...justice to Montaigne in its recognition of fundamental cravings. Typically, McPhee works from the sidelines, bending his style to any angle or knot that might suit his subject: in one piece, the raging differences between conservationists and the Federal government are tightly defined when McPhee boards a rubber raft headed down the Colorado along with Friends of the Earth founder Dave Brower and the U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation: "'Come on now, Dave, be honest' (the Commissioner) said. 'From a conservationist's point of view, what is the best source of electric power?' 'Flashlight batteries,' Brower said...
...provocative idea, nonetheless, has spawned a raft of strategies for reversing the nation's economic decay. Senator Edward Kennedy has called for an American Reindustrialization Corporation to promote new investment in business and technology. Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the Lazard Freres investment bank and chairman of New York's Municipal Assistance Corporation, advocates creation of a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation, with $5 billion for loans to failing cities like New York or slumping companies like Lockheed or Chrysler. Management Expert Peter Drucker wants to accelerate the change to computer-age companies and shrink traditional blue-collar employment...
Meanwhile, like electrons to a cathode, a raft of smaller companies and entrepreneurs are being attracted to the EV market. Sir Jon Samuel, a transplanted Briton, has set up Electric Auto Corp. in Troy, Mich., to produce the Silver Volt, scheduled for production next year at a cost to buyers of $16,000 each. The car runs on fast-charge, lead-acid batteries, but has a small rotary gasoline engine to boost power for passing and to rescue drivers from battery failure. Jet Industries of Austin, Texas, takes Ford, Chrysler and Fuji cars and trucks from the factory, installs lead...
With this sudden burst, Meagher, with the help of attackmen Rich Rainaldi and Gary Pedroni, made the hapless Huskies look like leftover drowning victims from the Adams House raft race...