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Track Coach Robert "Pappy" Hunt says he's the slowest member of the men's varsity squad. And in spite of practicing nearly 20 hours weekly, he has yet to complete a mile in under seven minutes...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Walking Away With First Place | 3/9/1983 | See Source »

...victim who does the actual killing. That is why moviemakers focus so carefully on the glass of smoky milk jiggling on the silver tray as it progresses up the winding staircase toward the invalid wife. They know that we will want to follow the death instrument in the slowest motion, to see it grasped eagerly or laconically, at last to shudder. So one shudders picturing Stanley and Theresa Janus in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, stunned over the death of Stanley's brother Adam a few hours earlier, the couple sitting in despair at the kitchen table, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Maniac in the Balance | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

Unemployment is expected soon to reach the highest level since 1941, the economy is mired in recession, industrial production dropped by 3% in January alone, and domestic auto sales are running at the slowest pace since the beginning of the Kennedy Administration. Two results of all those woes: Ford Motor Company announced last week that it lost a staggering $136.6 million loss during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Givebacks and Headaches | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...since the breakup of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil empire in 1911 has there been a more complex and potentially revolutionary restructuring of a U.S. corporation. The agreement opens the way for AT&T to divest itself of the least profitable and slowest-growing side of its business, local telephone service, by spinning off its 22 operating subsidiaries. At the same time, the company will be permitted to hang on to its very profitable and rapidly growing long-distance operations, which in 1980 accounted for more than 50% of AT&T's $51 billion in revenue. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalking New Markets | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...news. New figures showed that sales by the Big Three automakers during the first ten days of December were nearly 28% lower than year-earlier levels, which were already extraordinarily depressed. On an average day early this month, fewer than 14,000 cars were sold throughout the U.S., the slowest pace since 1959, when the U.S. population was 177 million, compared with more than 226 million today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Stuck in the Slush: The new year will start in recession | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

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