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...Runway 22 at California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, the space shuttle Columbia looked a little travel-weary. In the orange glow of the early-morning desert sun, the ship's protective tiles showed pits and bruises. Dark streaks lined the fuselage, and a tire was flat, apparently worn down by the friction of a wheel that locked on landing. Casting a baleful eye on the craft that has logged 10.8 million miles on five voyages, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, director of NASA'S shuttle program, commented, "It's beginning to look...
Many chief executives of major corporations agreed with that view. "The President is going to have to make more trade-offs," says David Mahoney, chairman of Norton Simon. "Both parties need to ignore extremes and concentrate on getting the economy rolling again." Asserted John Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "There will be a more pragmatic attitude toward intolerable budget deficits...
...intended all along to starve me, why not simply withhold the food?"). The wittiest story examines the subject of time and deals with humanity's persistent demand: Why is there never enough? One answer has a logic that Pythagoras would have admired: like air from a tire, the stuff is actually escaping through a tiny hole in the universe...
...decision, though, everything had gone in Andropov's favor. First, Chernenko arrived late for work because of a flat tire. That had been enough to infuriate the boss, a stickler for punctuality. Then Brezhnev complimented Andropov on his new Pierre Cardin suit and suggested they go shopping together in the near future...
Once B C had picked up the momentum, halftime did nothing to slow the Eagles down. The game became more and more physical and the Crimson booters began to tire, letting the Eagles get to the ball first...