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Zimmerman, currently playing in the top singles position, goes into the weekend off a very impressive win over Columbia's top player, Rob Kresberg--ranked third in the East and 23rd in the country. Zimmerman will be paired with Berry in the top doubles spot...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Netmen Head to Navy, Face UWV Tomorrow | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

...Junior Rob Manhole, an avid Celtics fan, has made it public: The Celtics should not make the NBA playoffs. Then they'll get the chance to draft Michigan's Glen Rice...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Golfer's Worst Nightmare | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

Freshman Michael Zimmerman faltered in the second set but won the third handily to defeat senior Rob Kresberg at number-one singles, 6-1, 2-6, 6-2. Kresberg is currently ranked third in the East and 23rd in the country...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Zimmerman, Chang Lead Netmen Past Columbia for Revenge, 7-2 | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...climate. But Soviet filmmakers know not to expect too much. In Vyacheslav Krishtofovich's poignant comedy Lonely Woman Searching for a Life Companion, a seamstress places a personal ad on walls around her town. The results are dire. The first man to answer the ad insults her, tries to rob her and then leeches on her kind nature. A trio of Young Pioneers, encouraged to take pity on the "sick and the lonely," offers to take her for walks in the countryside. She nearly loses her job. She never finds Comrade Right. But in the last shot, her neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Censors' Day Off | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...primary obstacle for managers trying to balance their books is their inability to set prices. By dictating everything from salaries to the price of finished goods, Moscow planners rob factories of any incentive to hold down costs or make a profit. For example, the prices of labor and raw materials are kept so artificially low that factory managers live in a financial fantasy land. "Right now factory managers don't know when they're doing a good job. They can say they're profitable even though they're selling tractors for $2,000 when they should be selling them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up The Power | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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