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...seats at a hockey game or a figure-skating competition, but there is just no way to watch more than a fragment of a ski race in person. Ski jumping is splendid for eyeball-viewing?all those figures flying through the air?but the races are hopeless. Flat or steep, it does not matter; you pick a good turn and watch the bodies come over the hill or out of the trees, zip, zip. Did you see Bill Koch or Phil Mahre make his move? Not a chance, unless you were back at the hotel watching on the tube...
...operating companies cannot move deftly in some of the newer regulatory areas, they will have even more trouble when they try to adjust to direct competition, a relatively new experience. Admits Richard Santagati, who heads NYNEX's business-information-systems sales staff: "There's a steep learning curve to overcome...
Looking our far and wide to the sea, Tmolus soars steep and abrupt, stretched out on either slope. On one side it reaches Sardis and on the other tiny Hypapa...
...east of the river. In the middle of the Volga a powerful dredge scoops up hundreds of tons of sand, digging the trench in which the pipeline will be laid. On the river's western bank, the completed pipeline juts up from the water and disappears into a steep, rocky ridge. Unperturbed by tl frenetic activity, fishermen walk along the pipe that has not yet been laid and cast their nets into the Volga...
...inflation. After the U.S. money supply grew at an alarming 12% annual rate in the spring, the Reserve Board tightened its policy. By October, the pace of money growth slowed to less than 2%, and the Fed's tough stance kept short-term interest rates at a steep 8.5% to 11% level...