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...political effects of the foreign roller coasters were also limited, in part by the relatively small number of shareholders involved in most countries. In the U.S. some 29 million households, or 1 in 4 adults, own stock. In Britain some 9 million adults, or 1 in 5, own shares, but that is still a relatively new phenomenon. In wealthy West Germany, by contrast, only 1 in 20 citizens is a private stockholder, while in Mexico the total number of shareholders is only...
...every statistical category, including shots (27 to Yale's 14), the Bulldogs erased any apparent advantage when Yale forward Katie O'Sullivan put in the game's only tally 20:20 into the second half. The goal sealed the stickwomen's fate and put an end to their roller-coaster season...
...living? I'm in blank House--we got a triple for five people, a walk-through. What classes you taking? Oh, really? I took it last year. A flaming gut, no shit. So, where did you go this summer to get that great tan? You say you roller-skated along the banks of the Nile to raise money for the homeless and then spent a month touring beaches in Spain, France and Italy? Sounds really great...
...seemed everyone's Pan Am hero though, Anglo and Latin, was a lefthanded baseball pitcher born with one finger on his right hand. The University of Michigan's Jim Abbott, 19, carried the flag and led the U.S. team in the opening ceremonies at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where roller skaters would later go streaming like the Unsers. "I've never run across a feeling on a baseball field quite like that," said Abbott, who then took the mound against Nicaragua. "When you're out there, and the national anthem's playing, and you're holding your hat to your...
Transplanted Americans can be unwitting victims of the roller-coaster Mexican economy. Velma Dempsey, who has lived in Chapala for 17 years, recalls visiting a bank in 1982 to transfer her life savings from the U.S. Perturbed by the slow-moving line, she went home, planning to return the next day. Overnight, the government expropriated all dollar savings, compensating depositors with pesos. Sighs Dempsey: "I was never so grateful for inefficiency...