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...strict routine of twelve hours on duty and twelve off during seven days at sea. The center of the rig's activities is the mud-slicked drill floor, where half a dozen roughnecks struggle day and night with heavy chains and power-driven winches to shove 90-ft.-long pieces of drill pipe into the narrow hole. During the twelve hours off, the roustabouts spend most of their time sleeping, although they can also fish for baby sharks and sand trout or watch the latest porno movie on closed-circuit television. After each 84-hour work week, the crew...
Fully a third of the new players are women. Strategy and "court sense"-the subtleties of caroms and positioning -can serve to neutralize male advantages in strength. One Chicago woman, however, reports a feminine disadvantage: "Women are more reluctant to push and shove the other player than men, and that sort of aggressiveness is necessary in this game." Age does not seem to be a factor. The top woman player in the country is 40-year-old Peggy Steding, a professional racquetballer from Odessa, Texas. She has won every major title in the past four years, routinely whipping opponents young...
...Boren never makes it to the new President's side, he may do just as much good with the underlings. Says he: "Real bureaucratic leaders, of course, are always second in line, because they shove someone else out front to test the water. The one out front usually bears the title of special assistant...
...suspicions. The others trail far behind. When she gets into the elevator in her apartment house, two or three will catch up and board it with her and get off at the floor below hers. Then, as she unlocks her door, they will suddenly appear in the corridor and shove her inside the apartment...
...This is especially worth considering in the weird realm of regularly scheduled prime-time commercial television, that bargain basement of American culture, where the very nature of the environment usually precludes great notions and the merely good ones are rare. Instead, the insipid and the tasteless constantly push and shove, tug and haul, rudely jockeying for position in the ratings that mean the difference between survival and death for programs. Financially a couple of points make the difference between profits that are merely terrific for the network with a bunch of flops or simply stupefying for the one with...