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...Considerably Smoother...
...crowd's darling. This tiny French girl leaps with abandon, spins her own way, often at a scary tilt, and in between pumps her way around the rink. But within the past 15 months she has decided to add some discipline to her act. Her stroking is smoother, her program better paced. She is talented enough to execute difficult moves correctly and zany enough not to lose her wit and vitality if she chooses...
While Murphy and Cavalier Coach certainly benefit from their arrangement, Harvard may also receive benefits in the form of familiar arrangements and smoother service. There is no proof that switching bus companies would have resulted in late buses or annoyed alumni (and possibly reduced donations). But, as your editorial admits, neither is there proof that Harvard paid extra or received inferior service because Murphy failed to put the contract up to bid each year...
When President Clinton visited Tokyo last month, he repeatedly implied that "change" could bring Japan smoother trading relations with the world, a more consumer-oriented society, a government concerned with its citizens' quality of life. U.S. officials have been pushing Japan to cut taxes and spend more government money to boost the sluggish economy and increase imports from the U.S. Even though the election results demonstrate an impulse toward change, says a senior Administration official, "we should not presuppose it is the kind of change that we think ought to happen...
...words of New York City Mayor David Dinkins; a quilt of many ethnic and racial patches, in a favorite metaphor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's. But the figures of the 1990 census, only now crunched, suggest that the demographic surface of life in the U.S. is a lot smoother than one thinks. So is the cultural surface, unless the politicians ruffle...