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...knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing, he said, and in those days, in winter, the only way a boy could prove to his mother that he had truly bathed was to sprint home from the Rio Grande while the ice still cleaved to his locks-a star-spangled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: Privacy Without Reservation | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...English and American literature at Harvard, has been hunting for a job in advertising or public relations. She works at three jobs to help pay her way through school, sends out twelve job-query letters a week, and has made so many phone calls that she has switched to Sprint, a system that offers long-distance calls at lower cost. So far she has had no offers. Says she: "Sometimes I'm enthusiastic and sometimes I'm worried. The long term doesn't bother me; the short term does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taking a Course in Go-Getting | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Alice Neuhauser also sparkled with energy as she came in second, .08 seconds behind the Crimson's Theresa Moore, in the 55 meter run with a 7.57 sprint and won the 200 meter race in a blazing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men Run Past Dartmouth, Brown... ...While Women Do the Same | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...there was some satisfaction among other phone companies over the FCC decision. As part of its ruling, the agency also allowed MCI Communications, Sprint and other long-distance competitors of A T & T to offer a deep discount, at least until the time when it is just as easy to use the new services as those of AT&T. Currently, MCI customers must punch in up to twelve extra numbers to make a long-distance call. The net effect of last week's action, said MCI Chairman William McGowan, "will be healthy competition in the long-distance market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rollback: A break for phone users | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...Eric Dickerson of the Los Angeles Rams was "the new Marcus Allen," and the old one registered just one 100-yd. rushing game all season until the playoffs. With breezy 121-and 154-yd. games against Pittsburgh and Seattle in the tournament, Allen and the Raiders are on a sprint. Plunkett throws downfield mostly to Christensen or Cliff Branch. But when the Seahawks concentrated on those two, Malcolm Barnwell caught 100-yds.' worth of passes in the first half alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Tangy Super Bowl for Tampa | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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