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...important. In relation, my stomach would attack us throughout the eleven o'clock lecture with sizzling pre-lunch hunger pains. Although I clearly remembered Procrastination's shortcomings, Organization was looking less attractive. She had me saving everything, even all those stupid Coop Charge receipts. "Why do we want a slip of paper with 'stationary' written on it twelve times?" She didn't answer until we started returning books. Procrastination and I had never saved anything but old newspapers and magazines, and somehow, they were always the only things we could find in the room when it came time to write...
...Apart from a few extremist groups such as the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging, which bears more than a faint resemblance to the Nazis, ideological racism is rare. Whites do not openly make bigoted remarks. The literature of the ruling Nationalist Party contains no derogatory references to Blacks. But little things slip out. An English-speaking cab driver, who assured his passenger that he supported the reform-minded Progressive Federal Party, finished a lengthy discourse on poor Afrikaners (of predominantly Dutch stock, Afrikaners make up 65 per cent of the white population) by saying, "Why, some of these Afrikaners are barely...
McEnroe allowed several match points to slip away at 5-2 but took the championship with a typically forceful serve that Borg simply couldn't handle...
Many economists are starting to believe that the dollar has become overvalued and will soon begin to slip. Rimmer de Vries, an international monetary expert at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., predicts that the current account, which measures the net international flow of goods and services to and from the U.S., will swing from a $10 billion surplus this year to a $5 billion deficit in 1982. That deficit will in turn drive down the value of the dollar, perhaps by as much...
Long the bible of New York's ethnic and blue-collar communities, the News started to slip as its traditional audience moved to the suburbs. Circulation dropped from 1.9 million in 1975 to 1.5 million last spring. To stanch the flow, the News and the parent Chicago Tribune Co. decided to seek a new readership among New York commuters and affluent Manhattan residents. They launched Tonight as a sophisticated answer to Rupert Murdoch's sensation-mongering New York Post, which had the afternoon market all to itself. Clay Felker, who had founded New York magazine, was brought...