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...Stung by his success with what the music biz still calls "middle-of-the-road" audiences, Billy Joel, an excellent balladeer and misplaced Broadway composer, set out to make an album that rocked harder and hung tougher. Although one of the tunes here is called It 's Still Rock and Roll to Me, the music sounds like Broadway without a book, and the lyrics are full of the backhand arrogance that Joel mistakes for true rock spirit. Midway through Side 2, Billy backs off a little and decides to flash his cosmopolitan credentials by trying a lyric in French...
...superiority. At 1:27 in the opening period, senior co-captain Peter Predun gave the Wildcats an idea of the long afternoon he had planned for them. With a quick dodge move toward the cage, Predun duped his defender and fired in the first of six goals he stung UNH for over the course of the game. That total was a career high for the talented mid-fielder...
...final singles slot performance by Kristin Mertz evened the match at three victories. Mertz stung her rival in two quick sets...
Take the corporation, for instance. Stung by the realization that they have raped the earth and exploited its people, corporate managers even today are in an "identity crisis," Toffler reports. From it will emerge humane, "multi-purpose," productive enterprises, as concerned with helping the poor and aiding the environment as with turning profits. Toffler points to the "distinct upgrading of the status and influence of executives concerned with the environmental consequences of corporate behavior. "Some now report directly to the president. Other companies have set up special committees on the board of directors." Some observers, still mired in Second Wave...
...could have been worse for the President. The White House, stung by Ted Kennedy's surprise victories in New York and Connecticut, was clearly worried as polls showed Carter slipping badly from his top-heavy lead of a few weeks earlier. They also showed a huge number of voters undecided. In addition to the frustration over the hostages in Iran, economic troubles loomed large. Jobless contruction contractors turned up at a Rosalynn Carter motorcade through Green Bay to wave signs that read WILL I EVER AFFORD A HOME? and SEND JIMMY BACK TO THE NUT FARM...