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...catalog. Twenty bucks pays someone to pick up the dry cleaning, $250 to cater dinner for four, $1,500 will buy a fax machine for the car. "Time," concludes pollster Louis Harris, who has charted America's loss of it, "may have become the most precious commodity in the land...
...most precious commodity to us is time," agree architect Trunzo and his wife Candace, both 41 and parents of two. "We have tried to simplify our lives as much as possible." Candace believes she and her husband are living "better lives than our parents. More hectic. But fuller." James wonders about that. "It's dangerous to use the word fuller. Where is that sense of spirituality that we talked about in the '60s? Where is the time to go up to the mountaintop? Technology is a diversion from life. You can be transfixed. I'm not sure that technology doesn...
Hinz, Phillips and Frilot not only must compete with the numerous players fighting for precious few spots, but also must battle the stigma attached to Ivy League players...
...exploration and production can be carefully limited, and better environmental safeguards can be put in place. In the end, the battle for Alaska's future may be decided in the other 49 states. If Americans can abandon wasteful habits, Alaska will be under much less pressure to squander its precious wilderness...
Later, alluding to charges that his wife had done little work for a salary she was paid by a Fort Worth business partner, Wright said: "My wife's reputation is very precious to me. And I'm damn well, darn well, not going to let that be sacrificed...