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...exulted Koppel. Donahue was the designated baiter. Zap, pow, thud! If the candidates could do that to one another, think what they could do to the deficits, Pentagon cost overruns and those nasty types in Latin America...
...shark spotted on the five-hour trip from the out island of Carriacou than any trouble we expected ashore. Two U.S. helicopters had buzzed us as we approached, and we waved back with our cameras and radios. But as we came closer to the coastline, we heard the dull thud of bombs over the noise of the throbbing diesel engine, and with each thud, Big Alfred stubbornly refused to go any farther. We coaxed and cajoled him over almost each wave with the radio reports that the quay in St. George's had been secured by the attackers...
...Thud. The 1,200 women greeted the remark with stony silence and a few muffled moans. "What did he really mean?" Polly Madenwald, the organization's U.S. president, whispered to the woman sitting next to her. The cave man reference, they concluded, reflected a Neanderthal outlook. "To me he seemed to be saying that the only reason we're here is to create families," said Madenwald, a Republican from Hillsboro, Ore. "It was patronizing and didn't address who we are. He was talking to a group of businesswomen from around the world...
Eventually Pusey clarified the Corporation's intentions on ROTC, saying Harvard would "do everything possible to keep ROTC" "What is clear is that the faculty had a clear choice to oust ROTC from campus and it was voted down with a resounding thud," Pusey said. "I think its important that ROTC be kept here. I personally feel it's terribly important for the United States of America that college people go into the military...
Over the past several years, almost no business has grown faster than video games, but last week stocks of most of the industry's highflying participants came crashing down with a thud. Warner Communications, owner of Atari, the king of video games, unexpectedly forecast a slump in fourth-quarter earnings. The news reverberated through Wall Street. Analysts began recalculating profit estimates of the best-known games manufacturers, trying to divine whether the Atari setback had more cosmic implications. By week's end no one was quite ready to declare that the stock market was flashing a bleak "Game...