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...grandmammy or a granddaddy can do for a child that no one else can. It's sort of like Stardust?the relationship between grandparents and children. The lack of this for many children has to have a negative impact on society. The edges of these children are a little sharper for the lack of it." The universal appeal of Roots, he concludes, is based on the average American's longing for a sense of heritage...
...young, spirited Brown contingent never regained their composure. Radcliffe steadily increased its margin as its passes became sharper and their discipline more evident. The Radcliffe bulge reached 20 with 1:30 left...
...more than arms' length from the South African crisis, Pogrund feels he has gathered an even sharper understanding of the widening and, he thinks, probably irreparable gash in the fabric of apartheid society...
...annual rate of $116.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 1974 to $111.8 billion at the end of last year, and recovered in the first quarter of 1976 only to $114.7 billion. Measured in dollars of the same purchasing power as in early 1974, the drop has been much sharper, the recovery so far has been tiny, and the level is still far below the 1974 peak...
...even sharper ups and downs at Trans World Airlines. With huge infusions of cash, he built it from a small southwestern carrier into a globe girdler. It was also his fief. He chose planes, tinkered with design improvements and harassed TWA's presidents with interminable post-midnight calls. On transcontinental flights, four to six seats were always blocked off for him even though he almost never used them. After Hughes' failure to raise the money for TWA's jet fleet, he lost control of the airline, and the new management hit him with an antitrust suit. Hughes...