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...University of Florida nephrologist, Dr. Robert Cade, concocted Gatorade in 1965 to sustain the school's football team. The Stokely-Van Camp Co. acquired the formula and turned the drink into a moneymaker, before being acquired by Quaker in 1983. "Though it may have been developed a long time ago," says Gatorade's Dyer, "nobody has been able to come up with a way that will improve how the product works...
There's a lesson here: to sustain a stable democracy, a country needs more than elections and a parliament; it also needs a strong state. Once elected, politicians must be able to provide basic services to the population as a whole and to stand up to special interests such as Big Labor, the military establishment, the monied elite and organized crime. Otherwise, regardless of how legitimately they came into office, leaders will lose that legitimacy where it matters most, in the eyes of their own constituents...
...people entrusted with the management of auniversity's endowment, their jobs is doublyimportant," the sources said. "To sustain aHarvard or any university is a specialundertaking, and it's disturbing to see peoplemisusing their authority in that system."Crimson File PhotoHarvard Management Company President JACK R.MEYER...
President Leslie Boyd said that Harvard had the talent to win, but couldn't sustain its physical intensity. "Our forwards were a lot better than theirs. [But] we went into the finals really tired. It seems more like bad playing," Boyd said...
Although Media Amok's concept is an intriguing one, Durang fails to develop it into more than that. Thin writing and uninspired humor, uncharacteristic of Durang's usual sharp-wittedness, leave us only with the television gimmick, and it is simply not enough to sustain an entire evening in the theater...