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...studied hitting the way a broker studies the stock market." Williams treated the game as a science and a fine art, weighing his bats on a postal scale, massaging them with olive oil and resin. When he said, "Hitting is 50% above the shoulders," he was speaking of a sharp eye--to read the seams on a curve ball and then smack the cover off it--and a UNIVAC brain that held all relevant data on a rival pitcher's quirks...
Germany's Free Democratic Party once described itself as the "party of the well-off." Its leaders quickly realized the error of making such an exclusive description, but the moniker has stuck. As it enters the campaign for national elections Sept. 22, the FDP has come out for a sharp reduction in income taxes for the wealthy as the recipe for cutting unemployment. Under the FDP's program, the top rate of income tax would drop to 35% from the present steep 48.5%. In addition, the FDP proposes to offer a 37,500 deduction for each child. "You say that...
...airline checks—both for sharp objects and non-kosher footwear—suggest the real nature of the times. President Bush and others have noted that this is hardly a war in the traditional sense, with a clearly definable enemy. But the uniqueness of the present situation goes further than that. The war on terror is nothing new as a war against America’s enemies or against an abstract “evil.” America has had enemies for well over 200 years now. Evil has been around a lot longer than that. What...
...itself seems to be changing. Back in the 1950s NTM infections were rare, usually occurred in male smokers and were generally curable. In the 1980s NTM emerged as one of the opportunistic infections that AIDS patients developed after their immune system collapsed. (Combination-drug therapy has since produced a sharp drop in AIDS-related mycobacterial infections.) Now, the typical patient with a NTM infection is an otherwise healthy Caucasian woman who is usually middle aged and often thin...
...American who would try to bulldoze through Japan's porcelain corporate culture--and slink home in frustration. A native New Yorker with a Harvard M.B.A., he appeared slick, headstrong and inexperienced. At 38 he was Mazda's youngest president ever--younger, in fact, than the average employee. He wore sharp suits (and still does). He had a habit of speaking in marketing lingo (which he no longer does). And like most foreigners in Japan, he committed the occasional faux pas. At one of his first dinners out with executives, he poured his own beer--a no-no among Japanese businessmen...