Word: shark
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...uses of old words are bubbling up in almost every sector of American business. Wall Streeters talk about fallen angels (out-of-favor stocks at bargain prices), shark repellants (strategies used by companies to ward off takeover attempts) and fill or kill (an order to a broker that must be canceled if it cannot be completely and immediately executed). Management experts speak of skunk costs (money that cannot be recouped when a project is aborted), tin cupping (when one corporate division begs for management support) and deadheading (bypassing a senior employee in order to promote someone more junior). Computer aficionados...
This week's American Scene story on Soviet and American peace delegates steamboating down the Mississippi River was written by Jay Carney, a Russian and East European studies major at Yale. The People section carries an item about a gigantic "Jaws"-like shark caught off Long Island that was reported by Peter Cleveland, a history student at Columbia University. The photograph of New Yorkers at an antidrug candlelight vigil in the lead Nation story was taken by Carl Ganter, a student in the American-culture program at Northwestern. Throughout the summer the World Notes page has been written by Princeton...
...there but the heart-pounding, thum-pa, thum-pa music. Last week a Long Island shark fisherman who served as the model for the grizzled Quint in Jaws helped a young charter-boat captain land the largest great white shark ever taken on a sporting rod and reel. Frank Mundus, 60, and Donnie Braddick, 30, had spotted a group of great whites feeding on the carcass of a whale about 25 miles south of Montauk, N.Y., and mobilized for battle. But the monster did not immediately abandon the whale in favor of the crew's whiting , and butterfish bait...
...time, it looks unpolemical at first, and that is the source of its power. It sums up Rosenquist's vision of America as an Eden compromised by its own violence. The impact of its neon colors and yowling discharge of images has slackened little in 20 years. Like a shark silently threading a reef, the sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole...
...London, with Games 73, 74 and 75 (all draws). But not before an opening round of press-conference publicity, in which Kasparov, asked about his playboy image, shrugged, "I must accept it," and said of his challenger, "Unfortunately I cannot choose my opponents." Karpov, the quiet, defensive killer shark, kept his hostility in check but brought along a public relations aide to praise his style as one that "belongs to the next century." The series will move to Leningrad after the twelth game. Will Karpov exact revenge? Not according to London bookies, who rate Kasparov an 8-13 favorite...