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Graham remains confident that a healthy team will succeed throughout the duration of the season...
...books on tape generally feature their authors acting as hosts and use TV and movie clips, as well as original footage, to show managers how to succeed in business by really trying. In What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School, Author Mark McCormack, a leading sports and leisure consultant, likens the fiercely competitive corporate world to an athletic playing field. Seated at his office desk, McCormack offers tips on how to "seize the initiative" to come out on top. In one film clip, former Pittsburgh Steeler Quarterback Terry Bradshaw is shown on the sidelines during a game...
...force of short-term missionaries (to 30,000). He ordered the addition of 31 temples to the 16 that stood when he took charge. Kimball, who had been an invalid for four years, died in Salt Lake City last week at the age of 90. Certain to succeed him is the senior among the church's twelve apostles who govern with the President and his counselors: Ezra Taft Benson, 86, a controversial archconservative who served eight years as President Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture...
...America, and to unbiased whites, Joe Louis symbolized the victory of poverty over circumstance. The prejudiced regarded him as an anthropoid in trunks. Before his first match with German Boxer Max Schmeling in 1936, a Nazi journalist wrote, "It is hoped that the representative of the white race will succeed in halting the unusual rise of the Negro." His hopes were not disappointed; Louis lost to Schmeling in the twelfth round. When the American won the rematch with a one-round knockout, his countrymen exulted, but by then the jungle-killer image of Louis had become endemic...
...elections. Sharon testily countered by offering up a brief "apology." Enraged, Peres dismissed the gesture as inadequate and insincere. He demanded that Sharon apologize for six specific accusations he had made in recent days. "There is a clear attempt here to humiliate me," Sharon snapped. "You will not succeed...