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Harvard did look weak in the short distances and many of the throwing events, but there were a number of hopeful signs, including freshman James Russell second-place finish in the hammer throw--he qualified for nationals with a toss...
Baldauf couldn't handle her toss, however, and both runners were safe...
...rising to the challenge. Hundreds of office and factory workers are already using simple voice-control computer systems to do everything from dialing telephones to controlling assembly lines. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, for example, United Airlines baggage handlers call out the names of airports as they toss suitcases on a computer- driven conveyor belt. A voice-recognition system, responding to their commands, dumps each piece of luggage into a tray marked for the appropriate airport and sends it rolling toward its destination...
...group is actually called Stryper, a name inspired by the biblical assurance that "with His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53: 5). Instead of throwing drumsticks into the audience, these metal missionaries toss out about 500 imitation-leather copies of the New Testament. "We are rock-'n'-roll evangelists," says Drummer Robert Sweet, 24. "Stryper is a modern-day John the Baptist crying in the world of rock for those who don't have the life of Christ to turn on the light switch. Our message...
Commentators like James J. Kilpatrick toss out the phrase to register contempt for a federal complex preoccupied with its own navel. William Safire says the phrase connotes something "of interest to tea-leaf readers of Washington goings-on but (is) strictly a yawner to the World Out There." Author Ben Wattenberg defines "inside the Beltway" as the "exponential expansion of what used to be the Georgetown cocktail party--elitism that has lost touch...