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...hostages, the confinement had been akin to an emotional sweatbox of unrelieved uncertainty over their ultimate fate. Would they be freed? Tried as spies? Executed? For their families at home, the months of recurring rumors of imminent release, fed by Iranian propagandists, had been painful too. Even on the verge of the actual release, noted Dorothea Morefield of San Diego, whose husband is consul general of the captive U.S. embassy: "Everybody's walking around with their fingers crossed." Said Susan Cooke of Memphis about her hostage son Donald: "I just want to grab him and hang on for dear...
...bloom was on the roads, the American who would not-or could not-drive a car was dismissed as a sponger or a dimwit, doomed to a life of dependence on alien wheels and, quite likely, celibacy. The nondriver was a rara Avis (though he could not rent one), akin to the kiwi, a bird that cannot fly. In a country that relies so heavily on the auto for its bread and butter and most of its honey, he was seen and often scorned as a kind of self-decreed cripple...
...stage akin to when the first lathe did a reasonable job on a hunk of metal. But machine vision has as important a role in automated assembly as human vision has for assembly by humans...
...consultant psychiatrist at Guy's Hospital in London, thinks shoplifting by women has a good deal in common with male exhibitionism: both are risky acts indulged in by the middleaged, and usually lead to punishment that comes somehow as a great relief. Says Lipsedge: "It's akin to any high-risk activity, like gunrunning or gambling...
...homeowners these days often feel that getting a mortgage is akin to getting mugged. Soaring interest rates and skyrocketing housing costs mean that fewer and fewer people can qualify for the traditional fixed-interest 30-year loan. As a result, bankers and mortgage brokers are busy devising new financing gimmicks that give more people a chance to buy homes. At the same time the conventional home loan may be on the way out. Says Ronald A. Wilbur, president of the New Hampshire Association of Savings Banks: "The fixed-rate, 30-year mortgage is more than likely a thing...