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...time when many companies cannot resist the temptation to take the money and run, Sears continues to show how to succeed in business by really trying. It is tough to beat the offer that Richard...
Still, Hart could not resist some not-so-veiled echoes of his earlier complaints about Mondale. "We have failed when we became cautious and complacent," he said of his party. He criticized "the policies of the comfortable past that do not answer the challenges of tomorrow." His followers gave Hart a warm ovation, and some wept in the realization that his candidacy was over. Others in the hall felt he had been less than gracious in defeat...
Prospects for the men's track-and-field team would be bright in any company ("I'm looking forward to gloating over the performances of U.S. athletes," Men's Coach Larry Ellis cannot resist saying), and before the boycott, the track women were poised to re-emerge as a significant power after twelve years without a gold medal. "The U.S. has the most diversified gene pool, the best facilities and the best coaching," says Women's Coach Brooks Johnson. "It was a myth that the athletes are better or that the coaching is better behind...
...foreign vacations, a generation of U.S. tourists could look to the mighty dollar as a generous and supportive traveling companion. For the first two decades of the postwar years, highly favorable exchange rates made vacationing abroad, particularly in Europe, a bargain that more and more Americans could not resist. Then in the late '60s and into the '70s, the growing strength of foreign economies and a weakening dollar sent prices skyhigh, transforming the trip abroad into an expensive, even prohibitive luxury...
Danny allows himself to be seduced by one of his students in the front seat of her father's Cadillac. Nor does he resist other Western pleasures: an infinity of ice cubes, catsup with French fries and Erroll Garner's piano, the good life, as he sees...