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Sometimes consumers encounter sales clerks who cannot find the "on" button on electronic equipment they are selling. A clerk handling vacuum cleaners in a department store confesses to a customer, "I don't know a damn thing about these." Over in the shoe department, clerks nowadays may simply dump boxes at customers' feet rather than helping them with the merchandise...
Certain sports teams have taken exams in absentia when national championships have conflicted with the examination weeks. When Dick Button '52 was skating for Olympic gold, the Ad Board let him take his exams in absentia, Jewett said...
...considered the metaphorical rambling of such films as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and for the revenge fantasies of the Rambo genre. Not only was the drama phony (soldiers surfing through an artillery attack in Apocalypse Now) and the detail wrong (Sylvester Stallone launching rockets with the radio button on a helicopter control stick) but an essential point of view was missing. "The story that needs to come out," Dye says, "is the human one: what happened to the people who fought...
Thoroughly unpretentious, Bush is touchy about even the symbols of elitism. His reaction to being called preppie was to stop wearing button-down shirts and striped ties. No matter how Bush modifies the costume, his Eastern roots show clearly. He has a duke's air of natural infallibility. Hence, while paid political operators are viewed strictly as hired help, volunteers win Bush's high admiration...
...drops and climbs, including the worst ever single-day fall on Sept. 11 (86.61 points). The eye-popping volatility of the market was made possible by the steadily increasing computerization that allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to flush through the markets at the push of a button. But for all the action, the Dow managed to spend most of its time in the region of about...