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...observer of this Olympics for the mentally handicapped would wonder why they are competing. At the gym's other end, however, the scene takes the first-timer farther from the familiar, with a floor exercise called "rhythmic ribbons." One by one, young women, most of them shaped by the rough hand of Down's syndrome and all of limited physical ability, walk or run slowly over a patterned course, swirling a long ribbon tied to the end of a stick. Is that all there is to it? Yes. Except that Down's people tend to be short, and short-limbed...
Like The Terminator, the action scenes combine a mix of high-tech special effects with good-old rough 'em up fighting. But this time, it's good to see all the mechanized firepower working on the side of justice instead of against it. And Robocop's combination of controlled force and execution of the laws puts Dirty Harry to shame...
While three of Ronald Reagan's former aides were being grilled on Capitol Hill, two others were enduring rough treatment in the courts...
...book tells of troubles in the E.F. Hutton neighborhood: slumping lemonade sales and rough times with kids like Merrill Lynch. Presenting a "vision of what we can be," the book urges employees to do "much more with much less." But the attempt at spirit lifting may backfire. "Disgusting," said an executive. "We would prefer to think that management could communicate with us in an adult fashion...
...been playing softball since I was eleven," says Satterwhite, who once won the team's most-improved-player award. "It helps me feel young. Besides, the camaraderie on our team, with people you work and play with, carries over into the office and helps me get through the rough times." Like her catching duties, Satterwhite's schedule requires her to monitor all the bases, dashing from one editorial meeting to another in the course of assigning 69 reporter-researchers to stories and projects each week. Their job: to gather documentation for virtually every fact that appears in the magazine...