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...despite all of those yards, when it was time to make the big play, neither offense could and the result was a shell of a football game--all of the numbers and none of the heart. That the Big Numbers came out even, 17-17, is a tribute more to the mediocrity of the Ivy League this year than to anything else...
...catalogue's descriptive paeans are seldom graphic about the weapons' deadly effects. Usually the language is willfully neutral: one shell that spews out steel pellets is merely "useful to engage massed infantry at close quarters." But peddler's enthusiasm can overcome the technocratic blankness. A 105-mm artillery piece is "robust" and its "lethal punch" is thus "ideal for use in tough limited war conditions in all climates." One transport is a "tough, roomy, dependable" aircraft, and the catalogue says of the AEL 4111 Snipe aerial drone for antiaircraft gunners: "The morale effect on weapons crews...
Employees can set up the new IRA accounts starting on Jan. 1, and retirement experts believe that they will be widely used. Says James Dockerty, who manages pension benefits for 35,000 Shell Oil employees: "IRAS will become very popular...
...James Murray of Chicago's Policy Research Corp., "there'll be a $50 billion to $100 billion annual market for agribusiness applications of genetic engineering by 1996-ten times the potential of medical-pharmaceutical applications." Within the past ten years, giant companies like Atlantic Richfield, Pfizer, Shell, Upjohn, Ciba-Geigy and Occidental Petroleum have bought seed companies, the obvious distributors of the products of agrigenetics...
...CULLOUGH CANNOT BE FAULTED for trying a completely new style or subject matter. But in An Indecent Obsession, she contents herself with creating the bare shell of a potentially riveting story. In describing Sergeant Jones' tendency to adopt "strays" as friends, she introduces a whole range of possible relationships between Jones and his fellow patients. But she never fully pursues the implications of that idea...