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...cover. All of them are under 40. All began with little or no capital. All have built productive wealth by creating jobs, purchasing power and useful ideas. They are not only men of considerable imagination but able managers and administrators who realize that even a million-dollar idea is useless unless the man who has it knows how to put it to work and has the courage to take risks. The case histories of these six-and of their self-made compatriots-add up to a primer on the art of becoming wealthy...
Proving Alfvén's assumption would be just as difficult as disproving it. Spectral lines emitted from antimatter stars or galaxies would be of the same wave length as radiation from their material counterparts, making them useless for identifying distant antimatter. On the other hand, one unmistakable characteristic of matter and antimatter is that whenever the two meet they annihilate each other. This leads Alfvén to concede that two bodies in the solar system-the moon and the sun-are indisputedly composed of matter. There was no annihilatory reaction when Soviet and U.S. rockets...
Good directing is useless without good actors. One of the best indications of the quality of Hall's direction is the actors who have come to Trinity to work with...
Comparative scores are usually useless in picking freshman football games. But Harvard lost a last minute thriller to Brown 40-35 while the Elis pulverized the Baby Bruins in their season opener...
British military tradition seems useless. Opposed to both men is the camp provost (Tom Courtenay), a working-class martinet who brandishes the rule book on behalf of justice and fair play, though his real battle is against anyone superior to himself by instinct or birth...