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...alone and sometimes dreams of the day when even his work will be solitary. "My idea of freedom and independence," he says, "is to live on top of a hill with clean air?no smog ?and some good food vaguely in the area. The window is ajar, and there's a breeze that smells of geraniums or honeysuckle. And there's a room with a typewriter, where you go in for a few hours a day and tell your version of things. And you get a call from someone in a distant, dirty city who tells you that...
While leaving the door ajar for further negotiations, top officials of the Carter Administration last week politely but firmly turned down a set of proposals from Tokyo for reducing Japan's huge international trade surplus. By keeping out foreign goods and saturating world markets with their products, Japan has piled up a surplus that this year is heading toward a record $15 billion, and this is hindering growth and increasing unemployment in the U.S. and Western Europe...
...bath or a paint job. Also like the Concorde, the Tu-144 had a small cabin with narrow aisles and elbow-to-elbow seating; it carried a maximum of 140 passengers (the Concorde carries only 100). The inaugural aircraft lacked posh decor. Several of its ceiling panels were ajar, service trays got stuck, and window shades slipped down without being pulled...
Lieutenant Lawrence Murphy said the locker room doors were secured, but a student may have left a door ajar in order to return early from practice. It is more probably that the thief or thieves had keys to the locker room, Kevin McColl of the Department of Athletics said yesterday...
...Vatican, however, left only one door slightly ajar. An official commentary on last week's decree noted that long ago women were permitted to be deaconesses, which some argue might constitute a precedent for "sacramental ordination." After raising the question of deaconesses, however, the Vatican office left it "for the future...