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...Rubber Game...

Author: By Tai Wong, | Title: Batsmen Take Two of Three From Farm Club in Florida | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

...heart leap at this sudden elevation of popular taste. Unfortunately, no one has yet revealed how many copies of Rushdie, Eco or Hawking were actually read by those who bought them. Surveys of reading habits appear now and then; they must be discounted absolutely. Pollsters are not equipped with rubber truncheons to beat the truth out of interviewees. And where this subject is concerned, people lie. They will go on Donahue or Geraldo and confess, beaming, to every sin against God and man -- except the act of not having really read the latest much toted and touted tome they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No, But I Bought the Book | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...need more training, as well as managers who have to do a better job of evaluating people. Since the Alaska spill, we have had every affiliate worldwide go back and review their practices, but as they say in the tire business, you've got to look at where the rubber hits the road. What's motivating these people on the docks and ships? Are they upset? Is there too much pressure? Maybe we'll have industrial psychologists talk to them. We're not rushing people when they're moving oil. We want them to slow down. I don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with LAWRENCE RAWL: Exxon Strikes Back | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...then a strange thing happened. Zawacki elevated her play to go a notch above Wang's play and win the rubber...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netwomen Fall to Demon Deacons, 7-2 | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...always had food to eat," he says. "Families stuck together." The absence of material possessions was an advantage, Carril believes. "It made us innovative, creative," he says. Sometimes there were no ball fields and few balls, which led Carril and his contemporaries to improvise games. One involved dodging thrown rubber balls in a narrow culvert. It was not for the slow of foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETE CARRIL: This Coach Stalks Overdogs | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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