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...couple of days in their Pittsburgh laboratories. "I had no idea what was up," says Zue. The invitation turned out to involve 48 hours of rigorous testing with hundreds of voice spectrograms. At one point, the Carnegie-Mellon team tried to trip up Zue with the phrase "A stitch in dime saves nine," expecting him to misread dime as time. But Zue, having grown up in China, had never heard the old maxim. He passed the test and made believers of a generation of speech scientists...
...party is confused philosophically. What was long regarded as a grand coalition, the political expression of American pluralism for almost half a century, is now widely seen as a creaky conglomeration of self-interested constituency groups, alternately dithering and carping. The wholesale rejection of Walter Mondale, who tried to stitch the New Deal coalition together yet again, demonstrated both the weakness of that strategy and the dire nature of the party's condition. Bullied by interest blocs, the Democrats showed themselves without clear leadership and devoid of a solid ideological or geographical base...
...scramble to stitch together a patchwork coalition raised new doubts about the country's ability to solve its most pressing problems: how to cool 400% inflation, whether to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon, what to do about the occupied West Bank, how best to achieve an Arab-Israeli peace. Any new government, whether cobbled together by Labor or by Likud, promises to be a rickety, splintered structure that could collapse at any moment. "A divided nation remains divided," editorialized the Jerusalem Post. Said Ma'ariv, a Tel Aviv daily: "The greatest disappointment was that neither...
...Wearing Pink Pyjamas balked, but Walters gave him the phone number of an Equity representative who confirmed her claim. The red-faced cameraman obligingly overexposed himself while others compromised by stripping to their underwear. The scene then went off without a hitch-or in some cases a stitch. Walters had no trouble summoning the laughter called for by the script. The naked truth: the Equity official was really an actor friend helping her pull off a naughty joke...
...blow split Parker's lip which required one stitch at University Health Services...