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...Well, what can I say? I'm just glad I'm in great physical condition. I'm not hurt. I thank the Lord. I'm so sorry once again." This was a reference to his only other defeat in 42 matches, 14 fierce rounds against Leonard in 1981. Whatever was removed from him in that fight, more was taken out in this. "It hurts. That's another one staring me in the face." But he praised Hagler--"The man showed his greatness"--and held out hope for himself at 26. "This...
...ease as Merlin pulling a quarter from a schoolboy's nose." The best of Jarrell's contemporaries learned to fear his scorn but value his insights. Said Karl Shapiro after Jarrell had roughed him up in print: "I felt as if I had been run over but not hurt." Others, including Aiken, complained bitterly about "this self-appointed judge and executioner." Jarrell replied in print that "it is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad." In private he was a shade more...
...affected by such a law is the no-cash bid by the Turner Broadcasting System for CBS. In fact, the legislation has already been dubbed the TBS-CBS bill. Although Ted Turner admits that a CBS plan to buy back a large share of its stock has already hurt his chances, both companies are aggressively lobbying Governor Mario Cuomo, who has until mid-August to decide whether to sign or veto the legislation. MARKETS Quite Early One Morning...
...race climaxed a year of hurt, bitterness and self-examination for both runners. Immediately after their Los Angeles mishap, Budd had approached Decker, her childhood idol, to apologize, but the frustrated U.S. star dismissed her with a curt "Don't bother." For Budd, the waiflike wonder whose shoeless style and record-smashing times had drawn worldwide attention in the months before the Summer Games, the accident was a traumatic blow to an already turbulent career. She had come under fire for obtaining last-minute British citizenship in order to race in the Olympics and evade the antiapartheid ban on South...
...stirring worry in the Pentagon over the kingdom's defense capability. Subsidies on food, electric power and gasoline are down 20%. The Riyadh government is also slashing money for new industrial projects. Two refineries worth $1.5 billion were canceled after 15% of the construction had been completed. Particularly hurt by the cutbacks are American and South Korean contractors who have been building the huge Saudi modernization projects...