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...might start with a very large list [of potential candidates]," Assistant Coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "Once we find out what the marks are, the SATs, the Achievement Tests and everything else, that list will shrink very quickly. You're looking for the combination of high ability with a good academic record...
...illustrate the properties of the number zero, for example, the despondent numeral visits a psychoanalyst. "I'm just a nothing," he sobs. Zero added to any other number, he explains, adds nothing; when placed to the right of a decimal point, it even makes a number smaller. The supportive shrink reminds his patient of zero's important role: "What about multiplication? Zero times any number is zero. Think of the power you wield over all the other numbers...
...Federal Government will have to pay more to maintain its volunteer military. The pool of eligible recruits for the armed forces will shrink from 9.5 million people in 1986 to 7.8 million by 1996. The Pentagon nevertheless expects to meet its recruitment goals, but the competition with private industry will be intense for entry-level jobholders. As the supply of younger workers declines, civilian and military employers will be forced to offer . education and training to make better use of potential recruits. By 1990, predicts the National Alliance of Business, three out of every four jobs will require education...
...decline in the U.S. dollar may have finally triggered a turnaround in trade. "I think the data clearly show a cresting in the deficit," said Alan Greenspan, former chief economic adviser to President Ford. After hitting an estimated $165 billion for 1986, a record total, the trade gap could shrink to about $140 billion next year...
...overlooking the unassuming fellow over there behind the desk who runs the Stratford Inn, a mild-mannered writer and part-time TV talk-show host named Dick Loudon. All the more so since Loudon is played by Bob Newhart, who has made a career out of trying to shrink into the scenery. As a stand-up comic in the early 1960s, Newhart created a series of dryly satirical routines in which he portrayed a well- meaning, slightly befuddled organization man trying to cope with extraordinary events, from the discovery of tobacco to King Kong climbing up the Empire State Building...