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Ironically, aerospace experts said, both sides in the dispute could use a breathing spell. The company needs to perform plant maintenance and restock parts for the assembly lines, and the machinists want to relax after a long stint of forced overtime -- as much as 200 hours a quarter in many cases...
Harvard should relax. Most of the Ivy teams have had their ups and (mostly) downs over the last few weeks. Cornell barely squeaked out a win over Lafayette last weekend--thanks to a field goal attempt that went two feet wide--and was shut out by Northeastern the week before. Both Princeton and Dartmouth fared worse against the Crusaders of Holy Cross than Harvard did. Penn barely beat winless Columbia last Saturday. And Brown is riding a 12-game losing streak...
...with a tragic curse: no pennant since 1945. Their old-school manager Don Zimmer carries his own albatross: the memory of squandering an 11 1/2-game lead as skipper of the Boston Red Sox in 1978. But with the Cubs in the lead in the National League East, Zimmer can relax enough to tell his ball club, "If you're not enjoying this, you should get a real job." The mood is infectious, whether it is .300-hitting first baseman Mark Grace describing the pennant race as "really neat" or rookie phenom Dwight Smith likening the season to a "dream." Only...
...there is a message in all this for high school seniors and their parents nervously prepping for the college gauntlet, it is simply "Relax." To its credit, American higher education remains infinitely less hierarchical than that of Japan or France. In a nation of second chances, no college admissions office -- not even Harvard's -- has the power to either guarantee success or withhold...
...months ago, delivers some 200 meals each night. Most of its customers are two- income families whose idea of a swell evening is dining in front of the VCR. Says the company's president, Constantine Stathopoulos: "It's all about economics and time. We give them more time to relax." Waiters on Wheels usually gets a 20% to 30% discount from the restaurants, then charges clients the regular restaurant prices. Other delivery services make their money directly from the clients, charging a fee of 20% of the menu prices...