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...following questions, simply (you know what I mean) pick the answer that seems most appropriate. If none of the answers particularly appeals to you, try not to let it ruin your day. Most of them don't appeal to us, either, but that's journalism. So if noneseems right, take the least wrongest, or guees, or say the hell with it and throw your pencil across the room in a blind rage...
...dreams of his glory--of freedom and roving and life on the open seas. Few illusions remain for the seaman himself. But when the adolescent daughter of his two friends fails to remember his lost grandeur, the old sailor is lost. This innocent cruelty is his final ruin...
Where Nelson Rockefeller was on shaky ground was in assuming that he could, just by saying so, divorce his personal and public lives. His marital breakup need not necessarily ruin his political future. But if he were to remarry, the circumstances of that decision would certainly affect his public prospects. For, rightly or wrongly, elections in the U.S. often turn as much on an assessment of the candidate-his personality, character, behavior-as upon the causes he espouses...
...close to the TV-you'll ruin your sight." "Hold that book farther away from your eyes!""Stop drawing in the dark! You'll go blind." Such commands and warnings are screamed out millions of times a day, and they are all wrong, an ophthalmologist told the American Medical Association at its Denver meeting last week...
...company barely survived its birth pangs. To get plant space, Norris & Co. bought Minneapolis' overextended Cedar Engineering Inc., but they badly miscalculated the funds they needed to turn the company around. To ward off ruin, Control Data's top 20 employees took a 50% salary...