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...done something. By 1983, everyone could see that Iacocca had, in fact, carried out his immense logistical mission. He had managed to whip a sprawling company into shape, and saved American autoworkers' jobs by the tens of thousands. Congress had fussed. The White House had postured. Out in the Rust Belt, Iacocca proved he could make things work. His feat was by no means single-handed: the Government's $1.5 billion guarantee of Chrysler loans was essential. Still, it was like the underdog pool player in a high-stakes game who announces an impossible bank shot involving awkward, oblique angles...
...accomplished for the year. Such wandering is considered not goofing | off but commitment. There were yuppies, who had flown out from New York and paid their fares with plastic. But the stoniest of the pilgrims followed their quest in the elderly bread vans and decommissioned school buses painted with rust primer and furnished with curtains and the kind of mattresses that are chucked under lampposts at 3 a.m. On their windows were stickers showing skulls or tap-dancing skeletons, talismanic to the Dead...
...Rust was not available for comment...
Meyer, who concentrates on offensive preparations for games, said "there was not a lot of dialogue" between himself and Rust concerning defensive philisophy...
Sidwell becomes the third defensive coordinator in Meyer's three years as coach of the Patriots. Rust replaced Jim Mora, who left after one year as defensive coordinator to become head coach of the Philadelphia Stars of the United States Football League...