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...road from Hopkinton, Mass., to Boston is well marked and in good repair; barring traffic jams, the automobile trip between cities takes about 40 minutes. Why, then, will a crowd gather on Hayden Rowe this month to risk shin splints, blisters and coronaries on the 26-mile, 385-yard run from there to Boston's Prudential Center? Because it is theirs: the Boston Marathon, an endurance test that makes a winner out of every runner who completes the course...
...gracious hello." (Snort, snort.) "This is installation and repair service, Miss Tomlin speaking clearly into her mouthpiece. Who's calling, please. The A.M.A.? What's that stand for, Anna Maria Alberghetti? Oh, don't get so uptight. It's just a little joke. Not unlike Medicare...
...President can grant the relief we recommended," says a high official of the ITC with refreshing candor. By law, he notes, the commission can consider only whether domestic industries are in fact being hurt by foreign competition and what sort of restrictions on imports would be sufficient to repair the damage. "If the ITC had to take into account the impact on consumers or on foreign relations, it would have recommended differently." The President, of course, must weigh those issues and, as he and his advisers do so, they are finding compelling reasons not to increase tariffs sharply...
...corner a bronze Etruscan mirror, probably deliberately broken in antiquity, according to Beale, awaits repair. The glue formerly used to piece it together has dried out, but the new plastic adhesives used in its place won't relinquish its hold so fast...
Crumbling Lodges. Everything from breweries to cement factories has broken down. The only coffee now available locally is imported stuff, most of it smuggled in from Kenya because the instant-coffee processing facilities in Uganda, like nearly all the factories, are closed for lack of spare parts or repair facilities for broken-down machinery...