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...N.H.L. 's sharpest shooter has just begun to fight...
...luxurious European hotels and from beaches in the Caribbean. In Manhattan, the wife of a Wall Street executive answered the telephone and heard a voice declare coolly: "I have an early warning for you." The cryptic message: "Sell everything. Market top has been reached. Go short on stocks having sharpest advances since April." A battery of 34 employees transmitted the news for more than eight hours, until the final message went out at 2:45 Wednesday morning...
...moved to a trouble spot like the Persian Gulf. Says Kelley: "If you get there fustest, you're there with the mostest." But would the RDF arrive first with the most? Brown estimates that the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, which the Pentagon rates as the sharpest, most combat-ready unit in the U.S., would take several weeks to reach its destination because it lacks enough cargo planes to transport its equipment. A Marine division would take even longer to arrive by sea. A small war might be ended, disastrously or otherwise, by the time these forces were...
...three, who insist they speak only for themselves, reserve their sharpest criticism for the Gang of Four, who controlled the Chinese Government until they were driven from power by current Premier Deng Xiao Ping in 1978. "We hate them. They made the country disunited," Jia says. Lynn, whose letters from her father in Beijing "always tell me things are getting better," also assails the Gang's repressive policies and deceptive practices...
...decline has been sharpest in the Northeast and Midwest. Says Thomas Klutznick, son of Commerce Secretary Philip Klutznick and head of a development subsidiary of the Aetna Life & Casualty insurance company: "In the Chicago area, growth is static. The demand for shopping centers has tapered off." Many regions have simply become saturated with shopping malls. And because of higher gasoline prices, people now plan buying expeditions more carefully. Thus they make fewer shopping trips, especially to outlying malls...