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...have the fans make all the decisions about the team. A company like Gillette could hand out ballot cards during the first few weeks of the season and the fans would punch out little holes next to the names of the players they want on the team. As soon as the starting lineups are chosen, a second set of cards would be passed out listing the players' names alongside possible salary figures...
...normal volume. Most of the callers, says Coke, are "concerned." And how. "I hate the new stuff," says Sharlotte Donnelly, 36, an anthropologist in Cincinnati. "It's too sweet. It tastes like Pepsi." Says Wendy Koskela, 35, vice president of an insurance brokerage in San Francisco: "Real Coke had punch. This tastes almost like it's flat...
...cartoonist, Garry Trudeau has earned a reputation for throwing punches as often as punch lines. The creator of Doonesbury once led readers on a comic tour through Ronald Reagan's brain and lanced House Speaker Tip O'Neill for protecting Congressmen who were chummy with South Korean lobbyists. Last month a sequence ridiculing the antiabortion documentary The Silent Scream so worried the Universal Press Syndicate, Doonesbury's distributor, that the artist agreed to withdraw it. Trudeau was back in the headlines (and his strip briefly out of several papers) last week for giving a black eye to Ol' Blue Eyes...
...long- distance field by making it as easy to use new long-distance companies as it is to use AT&T. At present, an AT&T long-distance customer need only dial 1 plus the area code and local number. But in most areas, customers of competing networks must punch in as many as 22 numbers before reaching their party. Even when a connection is made, customers complain of erratic voice quality and noise, brought about sometimes by inferior transmission equipment...
Also shining were the football team's one-two punch of running backs Mark Vignall and Robert Santiago who led the squad to 5-4 overall mark and a second place Ivy finish despite falling to Yale in The 101st Game...