Word: chases
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Ramming is almost the last alternative to consider. In an ambush the two basic maneuvers are the bootleg and J turns, which students practice for hours. The worst thing is to do nothing. During "confrontation and chase," a sort of midterm exam on wheels, each student jockeys one Malibu around the track, trying to anticipate, and avoid, ambushes by "terrorist" instructors in three other cars...
Large U.S. banks argue that instead of blocking foreign investment, Congress should remove the regulatory shackles from American moneymen. In particular, they want changes in laws that prohibit U.S. banks from operating in more than one state, so that they too could buy American financial institutions. Says Chase Manhattan President Willard Butcher: "I would at least have liked the chance to bid on Crocker Bank." Thousands of small American banks, though, are expected to continue lobbying hard against any legislation that would permit large domestic banks to enter their markets. They are no more eager to be swallowed by Chase...
...times the chase through this maze is needlessly confusing; it is often hard to tell past from present. A pity, because everything else in the program demonstrates lapidary craftsmanship. Producer Jonathan Powell, Adapter Arthur Hopcraft and Director John Irvin are like glypticians bent on chiseling one perfect series for TV. Hopcraft has retained Le Carré's spare style, which is as tightly drawn as a violin string. It can convey almost as many tones, and it is wonderful to hear what talented performers can do with those laconic, loaded sentences...
...entire Ivy League will be testing itself against a variety of outside opponents for the next two weeks. All look to improve--and maybe win--but not at the expense of paralyzing themselves (read: injuries) for the championship chase ahead. Harvard appears ready and healthy at the start of its annual interlude; the Crusaders seem like the right kind of test to fill the space between the Ivies...
Some students who were mugged at Columbia complained that the guards they went to were afraid to chase the muggers or could barely speak English...