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Wolff cited the team's need to play a tighter defense, to react faster to changes of possessions, and to take advantage of 6-on-5 penalty situations ("power plays" in hockey lingo) as some of the areas in need of improvement...
...planned meeting with Ronald Reagan at the White House, Manila was rife with rumors that a military coup might take place during her absence. Despite persistent friction within her government between some civilian Cabinet members and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who last week warned that he might react "like Rambo" if his colleagues continued their criticism, the President seemed unperturbed. Looking fresh and relaxed, Aquino had just finished giving a group of schoolchildren a tour as she greeted TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief William Stewart at the Malacanang Palace guesthouse that serves as her presidential office. Excerpts from...
...Federal Reserve Board on Aug. 20 lowered the discount rate it charges member banks from 6% to 5.5%. Normally, major banks lower the prime within 24 hours or so after such a move. This time, five days elapsed before San Francisco-based Wells Fargo became the first institution to react, though competitors thereafter quickly fell in line. Industry experts suggest that one reason for the sluggishness was that many major banks, facing massive liabilities in Latin America and elsewhere, are trying to boost revenues. By stalling on rate cuts, the banks can profit on the difference between what they...
...campus. Rather than force a face-off, which could have led to arrests, the University allowed the buildings to remain standing through Commencement, giving them police protection and lighting and allowing the shanties to remain up even during Commencement. Pusey says he doesn't know how he would react to such a situation...
...editorial: "It is almost as though the Twentieth Century itself has come to a sudden, violent, and premature end." He was a genius of self-proclamation. He made himself a representative hero. The adjectives he used did not so much describe as evaluate and tell the reader how to react: things were fine and good and true or lovely or wonderful, or else bad, in varying degrees. As the scholar Harry Levin has suggested, Hemingway sent postcards back home: "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here." He worked hard at his writing, and yet the interval between Fossalta...