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...incomplete pass turned into a big play when punter Alan Hall, who has had only two of his 120 punts blocked in his career, had his punt stuffed by Richard Huff. Brian Hennen picked up the ball in stride and sprinted 35 yards to score...
...weapons-production network are residents of Oak Ridge, Tenn., where enriched uranium has been produced since the very beginnings of the atomic age. Radiation is such a humdrum part of their daily lives that they take the red- and-white warning signs posted along Poplar Creek in stride. When area hunters bag a deer, they routinely run parts of it past a wildlife agent for radiation tests before serving it for dinner. The sight of coverall-clad workers ( chopping down "hot" trees growing in contaminated soil causes little concern...
George Bush's vectors fly upward, as if he were about to launch himself. His rangy walk would be a John Wayne saunter, except that he goes on his toes with a springy stride, with profile high and prowing the wind. It is his father's walk, the dark-suited, dignified swagger that one saw in the early 1950s when Prescott Bush of Connecticut crossed the Senate floor. On a dazzling day, the blue sky washed cloudless, George Bush performed such a swagger at the Columbus airport...
...Cambridge, Mass., the Stride Rite company is building an "intergenerational center" near its headquarters to provide day care for up to 60 children and 30 elderly relatives of its employees. Stride Rite chairman Arnold Hiatt believes the center, scheduled to open in 1991, will have advantages over facilities that cater strictly to children or the elderly. Since the two groups will share some activities, both are expected to get more out of the experience...
...then works a full eight-hour day. In Oak Brook, Ill., computer workers at the Official Airline Guides publishing firm can cluster their hours, and work from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. three days a week. Other companies adjust hours on a case-by-case basis. At Stride Rite, comptroller Nancy Cirigliano varied her schedule last December when her father was hospitalized, coming in late some days and leaving early on others. Says she: "My boss said, 'Don't even ask.' He understood...