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Lewis will stay on as General Dynamics chairman until perhaps the end of the year to ensure a smooth management transition. His successor will not come from within the company, but is an outsider, Stanley C. Pace, 63, a West Pointer and currently vice chairman of TRW, a high-tech conglomerate based in Cleveland. Pace had been thinking of retirement, but decided instead to take on the tough General Dynamics assignment. Why stay in the fray? "That's a good question," Pace said at a news conference. "My wife asked me that." Lewis approached Pace to be his successor...
...like my belly button." I think there are other unobvious places on the body that are sexy and the stomach is kind of innocent. I don't have a really flat stomach. I sort of have a little girl's stomach. It's round and the skin is smooth and it's nice. I like...
Smith presented a challenge to the lights only at the start of the 2000- meter course and was embarrassingly shortlived. They rowed stroke for stroke with the Black and White for the first 100 meters until Radcliffe settled into its smooth and relentless eythmn. The lights began increasing their margin by entire boatlengths, ultimately reaching four by the finish...
...which is just as well. McCullough's claim to inverse greatness in this book does not rest on what she tells but on her miraculous ability to tell it | ludicrously. She seems to emulate a process she admiringly ascribes to Dr. Christian: "to ruminate some particularly knotty concept into smooth mental paste." Hence the cascade of cliches, many per page and even paragraph. An adviser tells the President: "It's a hot potato, none hotter. We may be biting off more than we can chew." The "cool lustrous brain" of Judith Carriol manifests itself dimly: "The less people involved...
...hope they won't be much less smooth," says their coach, chuckling. He adds that he hasn't forgotten about third-seeded Brown-the other boat that's beaten the Crimson-and fourth-ranked Princeton-Harvard's first victim of the reason...