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WHAT?! you scream. A bunch of elitist, corporate-sponsored jerks in long pants trying to whack a white ball into a little hole. And some people watch this on television and call it sport...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: The Pro Sports Lull | 10/29/1993 | See Source »

...this sneaky trick, wear protective clothing. You may get attacked from behind by a furious, foaming first-year who had been trying to print out her Expos revision when all of a sudden you hijacked her computer, to do E-MAIL, no less! She may then whack you with her bag (not that this ever happened to me, especially not last week after justice...

Author: By Ariela Migdall, | Title: In the Groovy Train | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...doesn't look like a complicated climate, but it is a complicated climate," he said. "On the one hand, we're continuing to whack away at the budget...At the same time, we're going to go out and raise a lot of money--we've already raised some-- and millions of dollars are going to come...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Pres. Releases Letter | 10/16/1993 | See Source »

...where other people quailed before the mighty typesetter, I loved it. I figured out what all the weird leading keys on the side of the keyboard actually meant and could fix the buffer with a good whack to the side. Some of my happiest memories of high school are of working amidst the smell of developer fluid...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Evolution of a Computer Nut | 9/28/1993 | See Source »

...likes the idea of government-mandated insurance coverage for prescription medications and for home-care visits by nurses or aides -- two major needs for many sick seniors. But the elderly and allies in the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare are aghast at Clinton's intention to whack $238 billion out of Medicare and Medicaid spending between 1996 and 2000, mostly by limiting payments to doctors and hospitals. They do not trust Administration promises to return much of the money to the old and poor through other portions of the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lots of Second Opinions | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

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